<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397117" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Slow and Reluctant Was the Long Descent</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Slow and reluctant was the long descent, <br>With many farewell pious looks behind, <br>And dumb misgivings where the path might wind, <br>And questionings of nature, as I went. <br>The greener branches that above me bent, <br>The broadening valleys, quieted by mind, <br>To the fair reasons of the Spring inclined <br>And to the Summer's tender argument. <br>But sometimes, as revolving night descended, <br>And in my childish heart the new song ended, <br>I lay down, full of longing, on the steep; <br>And, haunting still the lonely way I wended, <br>Into my dreams the ancient sorrow blended, <br>And with these holy echoes charmed my sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Santayana">George Santayana</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397117" data-title="Slow and Reluctant Was the Long Descent de George Santayana" data-description="Slow and reluctant was the long descent, With many farewell pious looks behind, And dumb misgivings where the path might wind, And questionings of nature, as I went. The greener branches that above me bent, The broadening valleys, quieted by ..."></div> </div> </div>

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