<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410191" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Helmsman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O be swift—<br>we have always known you wanted us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We fled inland with our flocks.<br>we pastured them in hollows,<br>cut off from the wind<br>and the salt track of the marsh.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We worshipped inland—<br>we stepped past wood-flowers,<br>we forgot your tang,<br>we brushed wood-grass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We wandered from pine-hills<br>through oak and scrub-oak tangles,<br>we broke hyssop and bramble,<br>we caught flower and new bramble-fruit<br>in our hair: we laughed<br>as each branch whipped back,<br>we tore our feet in half-buried rocks<br>and knotted roots and acorn-cups.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We forgot—we worshipped,<br>we parted green from green,<br>we sought further thickets,<br>we dipped our ankles<br>through leaf-mould and earth,<br>and wood and wood-bank enchanted us—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the feel of the clefts in the bark,<br>and the slope between tree and tree—<br>and a slender path strung field to field<br>and wood to wood<br>and hill to hill<br>and the forest after it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We forgot—for a moment<br>tree-resin, tree-bark,<br>sweat of a torn branch<br>were sweet to taste.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We were enchanted with the fields,<br>the tufts of coarse grass—<br>in the shorter grass—<br>we loved all this.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now, our boat climbs—hesitates—drops—<br>climbs—hesitates—crawls back—<br>climbs—hesitates—<br>O, be swift—<br>we have always known you wanted us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Hilda+Doolittle">Hilda Doolittle</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=410191" data-title="The Helmsman de Hilda Doolittle" data-description="O be swift— we have always known you wanted us. We fled inland with our flocks. we pastured them in hollows, cut off from the wind and the salt track of the marsh. We worshipped inland— we stepped past wood-flowers, we forgot your tang, we b..."></div> </div> </div>

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