<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413230" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The shell</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look what a beautiful shell of ivory white<br>Recently thrown at the sands by the rushing tide<br>See what a lovely shell a pad of a soft sloth snail<br>Small and pure without the notoriety of a pearl</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Lying on the back of sand hill so nigh to my foot<br>Brittle, frail spared by the violent breakers loot<br>Oh what mind what hand has made it so fairly well<br>Ah, empty, vacant from the creature that within it dwells</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Its delicate spire and whorl<br>How exquisitely are weaved its stripes of colors in whole<br>A miracle of design, that lives through ancient time<br>No less in beauty and charm than a poet rhyme</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>A piece of beauty is called a 'shell' by man<br>Not a pearl, not a jewel but unmoving dull clumsy name <br>A 'shell' which does not recall any treasure or historical fame<br>Let him who did not create it call it as he can<br>He who passes by it without notice, this pleasure from his eyes to ban<br>Yet this beauty holds in the sands and its charm contends the same<br> </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> Copy rights 2010<br> All rights reserved</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Isaac+Ziv">Isaac Ziv</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=413230" data-title="The shell de Isaac Ziv" data-description="Look what a beautiful shell of ivory white Recently thrown at the sands by the rushing tide See what a lovely shell a pad of a soft sloth snail Small and pure without the notoriety of a pearl Lying on the back of sand hill so nigh to my foot Bri..."></div> </div> </div>

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