<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409371" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Birds Of Passage</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Black shadows fall<br>From the lindens tall,<br>That lift aloft their massive wall<br> Against the southern sky;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And from the realms<br>Of the shadowy elms<br>A tide-like darkness overwhelm<br> The fields that round us lie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the night is fair,<br>And everywhere<br>A warm, soft vapor fills the air,<br> And distant sounds seem near;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And above, in the light<br>Of the star-lit night,<br>Swift birds of passage wing their flight<br> Through the dewy atmosphere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hear the beat<br>Of their pinions fleet,<br>As from the land of snow and sleet<br> They seek a southern lea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hear the cry<br>Of their voices high<br>Falling dreamily through the sky,<br> But their forms I cannot see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, say not so!<br>Those sounds that flow<br>In murmurs of delight and woe<br> Come not from wings of birds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They are the throngs<br>Of the poet's songs,<br>Murmurs of pleasures, and pains, and wrongs,<br> The sound of winged words.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is the cry<br>Of souls, that high<br>On toiling, beating pinions, fly,<br> Seeking a warmer clime.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From their distant flight<br>Through realms of light<br>It falls into our world of night,<br> With the murmuring sound of rhyme.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</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=409371" data-title="Birds Of Passage de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" data-description="Black shadows fall From the lindens tall, That lift aloft their massive wall Against the southern sky; And from the realms Of the shadowy elms A tide-like darkness overwhelm The fields that round us lie. But the night is fair, And everywhere A..."></div> </div> </div>

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