<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=403092" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Giant Cactus Of Arizona</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cactus in the desert stands<br>Like time's inviolate sentinel, <br>Watching the sun-washed waste of sands <br>Lest they their ancient secrets tell. <br>And the lost lore of mournful lands <br>It knows alone and guards too well.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wiser than Sphynx or pyramid, <br>It points a stark hand at the sky, <br>And all the stars alight or hid <br>It counts as they go rolling by; <br>And mysteries the gods forbid <br>Darken its heavy memory.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I asked how old the world was—yea, <br>And why yon ruddy mountain grew <br>Out of hell's fire. By night nor day <br>It answered not, though all it knew, <br>But lifted, as it stopped my way, <br>Its wrinkled fingers toward the blue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Inscrutable and stern and still <br>It waits the everlasting doom. <br>Races and years may do their will— <br>Lo, it will rise above their tomb, <br>Till the drugged earth has drunk her fill <br>Of light, and falls asleep in gloom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Harriet+Monroe">Harriet Monroe</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=403092" data-title="The Giant Cactus Of Arizona de Harriet Monroe" data-description="The cactus in the desert stands Like time's inviolate sentinel, Watching the sun-washed waste of sands Lest they their ancient secrets tell. And the lost lore of mournful lands It knows alone and guards too well. Wiser than Sphynx or pyramid,..."></div> </div> </div>

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