<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409833" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ultima Thule: Bayard Taylor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dead he lay among his books!<br>The peace of God was in his looks. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As the statues in the gloom<br>Watch o'er Maximilian's tomb, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So those volumes from their shelves<br>Watched him, silent as themselves. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! his hand will nevermore<br>Turn their storied pages o'er; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nevermore his lips repeat<br>Songs of theirs, however sweet. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let the lifeless body rest!<br>He is gone, who was its guest; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gone, as travellers haste to leave<br>An inn, nor tarry until eve. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Traveller! in what realms afar,<br>In what planet, in what star, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In what vast, aerial space,<br>Shines the light upon thy face? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In what gardens of delight<br>Rest thy weary feet to-night? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poet! thou, whose latest verse<br>Was a garland on thy hearse; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou hast sung, with organ tone,<br>In Deukalion's life, thine own; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the ruins of the Past<br>Blooms the perfect flower at last. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Friend! but yesterday the bells<br>Rang for thee their loud farewells; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And to-day they toll for thee,<br>Lying dead beyond the sea; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lying dead among thy books,<br>The peace of God in all thy looks!</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=409833" data-title="Ultima Thule: Bayard Taylor de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" data-description="Dead he lay among his books! The peace of God was in his looks. As the statues in the gloom Watch o'er Maximilian's tomb, So those volumes from their shelves Watched him, silent as themselves. Ah! his hand will nevermore Turn their storied p..."></div> </div> </div>

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