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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414594" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sik Road for C.P.Sharma</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Silk Road.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will remember ‘til I die, <br>the crowded caravanserai<br>Where weary travellers spent the night <br>and tried to sleep until day light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The camels voicing their complaint<br> would try the patience of a saint.<br>Our journey started in Cathay<br> we very slowly made our way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With bales of silk we would exchange<br> for foreign treasures rare and strange.<br>A camel driver’s life is hard <br>we risked our lives for small reward.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The greedy merchants stayed at home.<br>It’s only fools like me that roam<br> and dare the dangers of the road<br> to protect our precious load.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We traversed over desert sands<br> until we reached the greener land.<br>The rugged mountains of the west<br> but still for us there’s little rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For brigands dog us all the way <br>We have to keep watch night and day<br>until we reach our journeys end.<br>We must be ready to defend </div><div style="margin:10px 0">ourselves against the outlaw bands.<br>Who roam at will in the wild lands, <br>where they sell for easy prey<br> unarmed travellers to way lay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But we are many and well armed<br> allowed to go our way unharmed.<br>Until we reach our final goal, <br>though we must pay the city toll.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before we sell our merchandise<br> to anyone who has the price.<br>Fine silk a rare commodity <br>their merchants will buy readily.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When all is sold then we can rest <br>before we face the final test<br>Of getting safely home again <br>a happy band of weary men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am grown old my hair is white <br>but I remember with delight.<br>The great adventures that I had<br> while I was still a growing lad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The old Silk Road still calls to me.<br>Because of my infirmity<br>I am too old and weak today.<br> I cannot go so I must stay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I watch the caravans pass by<br> no longer touched by jealousy.<br>I know my travelling days are done<br> and that quite soon I will be gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Far, far beyond the yellow springs<br> to where the golden dragon sings <br>his song of welcome from the skies<br> for every son of Han who dies.<br>30-Apr-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>
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I will remember ‘til I die, 
the crowded caravanserai
Where weary travellers spent the night 
and tried to sleep until day light.

The camels voicing their complaint
 would try the patience of a saint.
Our journey started in Cathay
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