<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=406962" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On A Summer’s Day</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When high noon on a summer’s day<br>makes the sky a fiery furnace<br>and the heart seeks a quiet corner for dreams,<br>then come to me, my weary friend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A shady carob grows in my garden –<br>green, remote from the city’s crowds –<br>whose foliage whispers secrets of God.<br>Good my brother, let’s take refuge.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pleasure and tenderness let us share<br>in the sweet hidden prime of noon,<br>and the mystery golden rays reveal<br>when sunlight pierces the rich shade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the black cold of a winter’s night<br>bruises you with its icy pinch<br>and frost sticks knives in your shivering flesh,<br>then come to me, blessed of God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My dwelling is modest, lacking splendour,<br>but warm and bright and open to strangers.<br>A fire’s in the grate, on the table a candle –<br>my lost brother, stay and get warm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When we hear a cry in the howling storm<br>we will think of the destitute starving outside.<br>We will weep for them – honest pitiful tears.<br>Good friend, my brother, let us embrace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when autumn approaches with rain and cloud<br>and the roof leaks and there’s moth in the heart<br>and the desolate world sinks, sullen, in mire,<br>then merciful brother, leave me alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would be alone in the barren time<br>when the heart withers in slow decay.<br>Unseen. Unknown. No stranger understands.<br>Let me grieve alone in my silent pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Hayyim+Nahman+Bialik">Hayyim Nahman Bialik</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=406962" data-title="On A Summer’s Day de Hayyim Nahman Bialik" data-description="When high noon on a summer’s day makes the sky a fiery furnace and the heart seeks a quiet corner for dreams, then come to me, my weary friend. A shady carob grows in my garden – green, remote from the city’s crowds – whose foliage whispe..."></div> </div> </div>

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