<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409585" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Songo River. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fourth)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nowhere such a devious stream,<br>Save in fancy or in dream,<br>Winding slow through bush and brake,<br>Links together lake and lake. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Walled with woods or sandy shelf,<br>Ever doubling on itself<br>Flows the stream, so still and slow<br>That it hardly seems to flow. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never errant knight of old,<br>Lost in woodland or on wold,<br>Such a winding path pursued<br>Through the sylvan solitude. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never school-boy, in his quest<br>After hazel-nut or nest,<br>Through the forest in and out<br>Wandered loitering thus about. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the mirror of its tide<br>Tangled thickets on each side<br>Hang inverted, and between<br>Floating cloud or sky serene. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Swift or swallow on the wing<br>Seems the only living thing,<br>Or the loon, that laughs and flies<br>Down to those reflected skies. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Silent stream! thy Indian name<br>Unfamiliar is to fame;<br>For thou hidest here alone,<br>Well content to be unknown. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But thy tranquil waters teach<br>Wisdom deep as human speech,<br>Moving without haste or noise<br>In unbroken equipoise. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though thou turnest no busy mill,<br>And art ever calm and still,<br>Even thy silence seems to say<br>To the traveller on his way:-- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Traveller, hurrying from the heat<br>Of the city, stay thy feet!<br>Rest awhile, nor longer waste<br>Life with inconsiderate haste! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Be not like a stream that brawls<br>Loud with shallow waterfalls,<br>But in quiet self-control<br>Link together soul and soul.'</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=409585" data-title="Songo River. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fourth) de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" data-description="Nowhere such a devious stream, Save in fancy or in dream, Winding slow through bush and brake, Links together lake and lake. Walled with woods or sandy shelf, Ever doubling on itself Flows the stream, so still and slow That it hardly seems to fl..."></div> </div> </div>

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