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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415728" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Quart Pot Creek</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On an evening ramble lately, as I wandered on sedately,<br>Linking curious fancies, modern, mediaeval, and antique—<br>Suddenly the sun descended, and a radiance ruby-splendid,<br>With the gleam of water blended, thrilled my sensitive physique—<br>Thrilled me, filled me with emotion to the tips of my physique,<br> Fired my eye, and flushed my cheek.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heeding not where I was going, I had wandered, all unknowing,<br>Where a river gently flowing caught the radiant ruby-streak;<br>And this new-found stream beguiling my sedateness into smiling,<br>Set me classically styling it with Latin names and Greek,<br>Names Idalian and Castalian, such as lovers of the Greek<br> Roll like quids within their cheek.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On its marge was many a burrow, many a mound, and many a furrow,<br>Where the fossickers of fortune play at Nature's hide-and-seek;<br>And instead of bridge to span it, there were stepping-stones of granite,<br>And where'er the river ran, it seemed of hidden wealth to speak.<br>Presently my soul grew stronger, and I, too, was fain to speak:—<br> I assumed a pose plastique.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Stream,” said I, “I'll celebrate thee! Rhymes and rhythms galore await thee!<br>In the weekly ‘poet's corner’ I'll a niche for thee bespeak:<br>But, to aid my lucubration, thou must tell thine appellation,<br>Tell thy Naiad-designation—for the journal of next week—<br>Give thy sweet Pactolian title to my poem of next week.<br> Whisper, whisper it—in Greek!”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the river gave no token, and the name remained unspoken,<br>Though I kept apostrophising till my voice became a shriek;—<br>When there hove in sight the figure of a homeward veering digger,<br>Looming big, and looming bigger, and ejecting clouds of reek—<br>In fuliginous advance emitting clouds of noisome reek<br> From a tube beneath his beak.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Neighbour mine,” said I, “and miner,”—here I showed a silver shiner—<br>“For a moment, and for sixpence, take thy pipe from out thy cheek.<br>This the guerdon of thy fame is; very cheap indeed the same is;<br>Tell me only what the name is—('tis the stream whereof I speak)—<br>Name the Naiad-name Pactolian! Digger, I adjure thee, speak!”<br> Quoth the digger, “Quart Pot Creek.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, Pol! Edepol! Mecastor! Oh most luckless poetaster!<br>I went home a trifle faster in a twitter of a pique;<br>For we cannot help agreeing that no living rhyming being<br>Ever yet was cursed with seeing, in his poem for the week,<br> <br>Brook or river made immortal in his poem for the week,<br> With such name as “Quart Pot Creek!”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> * * * * *<br>But the river, never minding, still is winding, still is winding,<br>By the gardens where the Mongol tends the cabbage and the leek;<br>And the ruby radiance nightly touches it with farewell lightly,<br>But the name sticks to it tightly,—and this sensitive physique,<br>The already-mentioned (vide supra) sensitive physique,<br> Shudders still at “Quart Pot Creek!”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Brunton+Stephens">James Brunton Stephens</a><div class=q>
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With the gleam of water blended, thrilled my sensitive physique—
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