<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413967" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>High Stakes for Friend Thad</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sun scorched desert lies in wait. <br>Implacable but patiently <br>Its moving contours undulate<br> moving swiftly but silently.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are no landmarks men can see <br>to know exactly where they are<br>On every side hostility<br> the desert’s not particular.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They have no way to navigate<br> across the ever changing sea<br> of endless dusty real estate<br> which alters imperceptibly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sunlit slopes and shadows change <br>more quickly than men think they can<br>The desert’s free to rearrange<br> the landscape and so baffle man<br>.<br> That he despairs surrenders to<br> the tactics that he cannot fight.<br> Then as so many travellers do <br>is lost forever to men’s sight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Implacable hostility<br> the desert show the human race<br> and also its ability.<br>To erase men and leave no trace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though sometimes sun bleached bones appear <br>by constant friction polished clean<br>Then just as quickly disappear <br>almost as if they’d never been.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sun scorched desert lies in wait <br>today as it has always done<br>For foolish men to challenge fate.<br>Though very seldom men have won.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">23-Feb-08</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</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=413967" data-title="High Stakes for Friend Thad de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="The sun scorched desert lies in wait. Implacable but patiently Its moving contours undulate moving swiftly but silently. There are no landmarks men can see to know exactly where they are On every side hostility the desert’s not particular...."></div> </div> </div>

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