<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400527" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Modern Elfland</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I cut a staff in a churchyard copse,<br> I clad myself in ragged things,<br>I set a feather in my cap<br> That fell out of an angel's wings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I filled my wallet with white stones,<br> I took three foxgloves in my hand,<br>I slung my shoes across my back,<br> And so I went to fairyland.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But lo, within that ancient place<br> Science had reared her iron crown,<br>And the great cloud of steam went up<br> That telleth where she takes a town.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But cowled with smoke and starred with lamps,<br> That strange land's light was still its own;<br>The word that witched the woods and hills<br> Spoke in the iron and the stone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not Nature's hand had ever curved<br> That mute unearthly porter's spine.<br>Like sleeping dragon's sudden eyes<br> The signals leered along the line.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The chimneys thronging crooked or straight<br> Were fingers signalling the sky;<br>The dog that strayed across the street<br> Seemed four-legged by monstrosity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘In vain,' I cried, ‘though you too touch<br> The new time's desecrating hand,<br>Through all the noises of a town<br> I hear the heart of fairyland.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I read the name above a door,<br> Then through my spirit pealed and passed:<br>‘This is the town of thine own home,<br> And thou hast looked on it at last.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gilbert+Keith+Chesterton">Gilbert Keith Chesterton</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=400527" data-title="Modern Elfland de Gilbert Keith Chesterton" data-description="I cut a staff in a churchyard copse, I clad myself in ragged things, I set a feather in my cap That fell out of an angel's wings. I filled my wallet with white stones, I took three foxgloves in my hand, I slung my shoes across my back, And so..."></div> </div> </div>

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