<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409455" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Flower-De-Luce: The Bridge Of Cloud</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Burn, O evening hearth, and waken <br>Pleasant visions, as of old! <br>Though the house by winds be shaken, <br>Safe I keep this room of gold! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, no longer wizard Fancy <br>Builds her castles in the air, <br>Luring me by necromancy <br>Up the never-ending stair! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But, instead, she builds me bridges <br>Over many a dark ravine, <br>Where beneath the gusty ridges <br>Cataracts dash and roar unseen. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I cross them, little heeding <br>Blast of wind or torrent's roar, <br>As I follow the receding <br>Footsteps that have gone before. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Naught avails the imploring gesture, <br>Naught avails the cry of pain! <br>When I touch the flying vesture, <br>'Tis the gray robe of the rain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Baffled I return, and, leaning <br>O'er the parapets of cloud, <br>Watch the mist that intervening <br>Wraps the valley in its shroud. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the sounds of life ascending <br>Faintly, vaguely, meet the ear, <br>Murmur of bells and voices blending <br>With the rush of waters near. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well I know what there lies hidden, <br>Every tower and town and farm, <br>And again the land forbidden <br>Reassumes its vanished charm. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well I know the secret places, <br>And the nests in hedge and tree; <br>At what doors are friendly faces, <br>In what hearts are thoughts of me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through the mist and darkness sinking, <br>Blown by wind and beaten by shower, <br>Down I fling the thought I'm thinking, <br>Down I toss this Alpine flower.</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=409455" data-title="Flower-De-Luce: The Bridge Of Cloud de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" data-description="Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold! Ah, no longer wizard Fancy Builds her castles in the air, Luring me by necromancy Up the never-ending stair!..."></div> </div> </div>

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