<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399123" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Philomel</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At times a nightingale or swallow <br>visited me<br>singing sweetly</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and with all the reckoning<br>that I did posses, <br>I tried to catch the words of it</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and sorrowful was that gentle ode<br>telling about lovely Philomel<br>who did disappear</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and how once she was young and beautiful, <br>so full of life, until her brother in law Tereus, <br>did his dirty deed<br>and then silenced her with a knife</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and in the visiting bird there was something, <br>something lovely and sweet<br>while at times it pecked insects at my feet<br>as if Philomel, was coming back to life in it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>[Reference: &quot;The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd&quot; by Sir Walter Raleigh.]</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=399123" data-title="Philomel de Gert Strydom" data-description="At times a nightingale or swallow visited me singing sweetly and with all the reckoning that I did posses, I tried to catch the words of it and sorrowful was that gentle ode telling about lovely Philomel who did disappear and how once she was..."></div> </div> </div>

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