<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409832" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Two Sonnets From The Spanish Of Francisco De Medrano</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Causa la vista el artificio humano, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The works of human artifice soon tire <br>The curious eye; the fountain's sparkling rill,<br>And gardens, when adorned by human skill,<br>Reproach the feeble hand, the vain desire.<br>But oh! the free and wild magnificence<br>Of Nature in her lavish hours doth steal,<br>In admiration silent and intense,<br>The soul of him who hath a soul to feel.<br>The river moving on its ceaseless way,<br>The verdant reach of meadows fair and green,<br>And the blue hills that bound the sylvan scene,--<br>These speak of grandeur, that defies decay,--<br>Proclaim the Eternal Architect on high, <br>Who stamps on all his works his own eternity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II. THE TWO HARVESTS</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Yo vi romper aquestas vegas Ilanas, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But yesterday those few and hoary sheaves<br>Waved in the golden harvest; from the plain<br>I saw the blade shoot upward, and the grain<br>Put forth the unripe ear and tender leaves.<br>Then the glad upland smiled upon the view, <br>And to the air the broad green leaves unrolled,<br>A peerless emerald in each silken fold,<br>And on its palm a pearl of morning dew.<br>And thus sprang up and ripened in brief space<br>All that beneath the reaper's sickle died,<br>All that smiled beauteous in the summer-tide,<br>And what are we? a copy of that race,<br>The later harvest of a longer year!<br>And oh! how many fall before the ripened ear.</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=409832" data-title="Two Sonnets From The Spanish Of Francisco De Medrano de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" data-description="Causa la vista el artificio humano, etc. The works of human artifice soon tire The curious eye; the fountain's sparkling rill, And gardens, when adorned by human skill, Reproach the feeble hand, the vain desire. But oh! the free and wild magnif..."></div> </div> </div>

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