<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397576" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>As man left the shore (Reply to Anthony Delius)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As man left the shore<br>venturing over the first horizon<br>the open blue sea<br>laid unknown, without route, <br>even a map in front of him</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and it was not in his mind<br>that he sailed beyond where he<br>at first could see<br>and ventured further away<br>from the know quay</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and through the fog in the west<br>came upon other beaches, other shores<br>explored new lands, found other places<br>set his foot on other sand</div><div style="margin:10px 0">constructed buildings, shelters, <br>planted seed for crops<br>and gathered in families</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the last man still knows<br>what experience, knowledge<br>and tales of his ancestors he have learned<br>and prays and yearns to do service<br>to his God who created every thing<br>and in perfection<br>do not have to recreate or invent again<br>in a universe that exists without end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: Reply to Pessoa by Anthony Delius.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</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=397576" data-title="As man left the shore (Reply to Anthony Delius) de Gert Strydom" data-description="As man left the shore venturing over the first horizon the open blue sea laid unknown, without route, even a map in front of him and it was not in his mind that he sailed beyond where he at first could see and ventured further away from the know..."></div> </div> </div>

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