<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409823" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To the River Charles</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">River! that in silence windest<br> Through the meadows, bright and free,<br>Till at length thy rest thou findest<br> In the bosom of the sea!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Four long years of mingled feeling,<br> Half in rest, and half in strife,<br>I have seen thy waters stealing<br> Onward, like the stream of life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou hast taught me, Silent River!<br> Many a lesson, deep and long;<br>Thou hast been a generous giver;<br> I can give thee but a song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oft in sadness and in illness,<br> I have watched thy current glide,<br>Till the beauty of its stillness<br> Overflowed me, like a tide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in better hours and brighter,<br> When I saw thy waters gleam,<br>I have felt my heart beat lighter,<br> And leap onward with thy stream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not for this alone I love thee,<br> Nor because thy waves of blue<br>From celestial seas above thee<br> Take their own celestial hue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where yon shadowy woodlands hide thee,<br> And thy waters disappear,<br>Friends I love have dwelt beside thee,<br> And have made thy margin dear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">More than this;--thy name reminds me<br> Of three friends, all true and tried;<br>And that name, like magic, binds me<br> Closer, closer to thy side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Friends my soul with joy remembers!<br> How like quivering flames they start,<br>When I fan the living embers<br> On the hearth-stone of my heart!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'T is for this, thou Silent River!<br> That my spirit leans to thee;<br>Thou hast been a generous giver,<br> Take this idle song from me.</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=409823" data-title="To the River Charles de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" data-description="River! that in silence windest Through the meadows, bright and free, Till at length thy rest thou findest In the bosom of the sea! Four long years of mingled feeling, Half in rest, and half in strife, I have seen thy waters stealing Onward, l..."></div> </div> </div>

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