<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=402961" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Thistledown</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This might have been a place for sleep,<br>But, as from that small hollow there<br>Hosts of bright thistledown begin<br>Their dazzling journey through the air,<br>An idle man can only stare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They grip their withered edge of stalk<br>In brief excitement for the wind;<br>They hold a breathless final talk,<br>And when their filmy cables part<br>One almost hears a little cry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some cling together while they wait,<br>And droop and gaze and hesitate,<br>But others leap along the sky,<br>Or circle round and calmly choose<br>The gust they know they ought to use;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While some in loving pairs will glide,<br>Or watch the others as they pass,<br>Or rest on flowers in the grass,<br>Or circle through the shining day<br>Like silvery butterflies at play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some catch themselves to every mound,<br>Then lingeringly and slowly move<br>As if they knew the precious ground<br>Were opening for their fertile love:<br>They almost try to dig, they need<br>So much to plant their thistle-seed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Harold+Monro">Harold Monro</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=402961" data-title="Thistledown de Harold Monro" data-description="This might have been a place for sleep, But, as from that small hollow there Hosts of bright thistledown begin Their dazzling journey through the air, An idle man can only stare. They grip their withered edge of stalk In brief excitement for the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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