<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399396" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Table Bay (Cavatina Sequence)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(after Matthew Arnold) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sea lies flat like a huge lake tonight<br>but for the spray <br>that is endlessly sweeping in and out<br>on the white bay, <br>some couples walk on the beach<br>on holiday; <br>holding their hands under a yellow moon, <br>some bright beacons and stars will be out soon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the distance Table Mountain rises <br>its huge old bulk, <br>is gigantic black and flat against the sky<br>like a ship's hulk<br>where it marks the African continent; <br>sails of yachts sulk<br>as they lie limp in the windless great harbour<br>while tranquil people are home from labour.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lights gleam far away at sea, are passing, <br>with a long lost<br>feeling of the great endlessness; as waves<br>fling, churn and toss<br>the hopes, fears and happiness of nations; <br>the great-great cost<br>of ending impoverishment, the ills<br>of vast centuries as destiny wills.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At a time faith and the will to be great, <br>did flow to sea, <br>like rivers in torrents that did rush in; <br>people were free<br>from the wars on the great black continent, <br>no destiny<br>could harass the nations, the pyramids, <br>that any living it now does forbid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like waves endlessly crushing on the beach, <br>and never spent<br>drawing back again, rushing to and thro<br>the sheer moment<br>between us has something that is lasting; <br>evanescent, <br>with some joys in our mutual discourse <br>life also flows to its ultimate course.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: 'Dover Beach' by Matthew Arnold.]</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=399396" data-title="Table Bay (Cavatina Sequence) de Gert Strydom" data-description="(after Matthew Arnold) The sea lies flat like a huge lake tonight but for the spray that is endlessly sweeping in and out on the white bay, some couples walk on the beach on holiday; holding their hands under a yellow moon, some bright beaco..."></div> </div> </div>

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