<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410433" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Amateurs of Heaven</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two lovers to a midnight meadow came<br>High in the hills, to lie there hand and hand<br>Like effigies and look up at the stars,<br>The never-setting ones set in the North<br>To circle the Pole in idiot majesty,<br>And wonder what was given them to wonder.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Being amateurs, they knew some of the names<br>By rote, and could attach the names to stars<br>And draw the lines invisible between <br>That humbled all the heavenly things to farm<br>And forest things and even kitchen things,<br>A bear, a wagon, a long handled ladle;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could wonder at the shadow of the world<br>That brought those lights to light, could wonder too<br>At the ancestral eyes and the dark mind<br>Behind them that had reached the length of light<br>To name the stars and draw the animals<br>And other stuff that dangled in the height,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or was it the deep? Did they look in<br>Or out, the lovers? till they grew bored<br>As even lovers will, and got up to go,<br>But drunken now, with staggering and dizziness,<br>Because the spell of earth had moved them so,<br>Hallucinating that the heavens moved.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Howard+Nemerov">Howard Nemerov</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=410433" data-title="Amateurs of Heaven de Howard Nemerov" data-description="Two lovers to a midnight meadow came High in the hills, to lie there hand and hand Like effigies and look up at the stars, The never-setting ones set in the North To circle the Pole in idiot majesty, And wonder what was given them to wonder. Bein..."></div> </div> </div>

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