<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409628" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 2. Finale</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Nunc plaudite!' the Student cried,<br>When he had finished; 'now applaud,<br>As Roman actors used to say<br>At the conclusion of a play;?<br>And rose, and spread his hands abroad,<br>And smiling bowed from side to side,<br>As one who bears the palm away.<br>And generous was the applause and loud,<br>But less for him than for the sun,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That even as the tale was done<br>Burst from its canopy of cloud,<br>And lit the landscape with the blaze<br>Of afternoon on autumn days,<br>And filled the room with light, and made<br>The fire of logs a painted shade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A sudden wind from out the west<br>Blew all its trumpets loud and shrill;<br>The windows rattled with the blast,<br>The oak-trees shouted as it passed,<br>And straight, as if by fear possessed,<br>The cloud encampment on the hill<br>Broke up, and fluttering flag and tent<br>Vanished into the firmament,<br>And down the valley fled amain<br>The rear of the retreating rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only far up in the blue sky<br>A mass of clouds, like drifted snow<br>Suffused with a faint Alpine glow,<br>Was heaped together, vast and high,<br>On which a shattered rainbow hung,<br>Not rising like the ruined arch<br>Of some aerial aqueduct,<br>But like a roseate garland plucked<br>From an Olympian god, and flung<br>Aside in his triumphal march.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like prisoners from their dungeon gloom,<br>Like birds escaping from a snare,<br>Like school-boys at the hour of play,<br>All left at once the pent-up room,<br>And rushed into the open air;<br>And no more tales were told that day.</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=409628" data-title="Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 2. Finale de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" data-description="'Nunc plaudite!' the Student cried, When he had finished; 'now applaud, As Roman actors used to say At the conclusion of a play;? And rose, and spread his hands abroad, And smiling bowed from side to side, As one who bears the palm away. And gener..."></div> </div> </div>

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