<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415974" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Outlines</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The tufted gums along the rise<br>Stand black against the evening skies.<br>And in the red west sombreing<br>As daylight dies,<br>A simple moon-the loveliest thing.<br>I love outlines. It may be<br>Some old wise heritage in me,<br>For well we know that finite mind<br>Calls for the bounded and defined.<br>Though random fancy loves to range<br>The aimless mists of dawn, and strange<br>Lovely illusions in the sky<br>That charm and lie,<br>Something there is in mortal man<br>Must have a margin and a plan;<br>And Truth the tyrant has decreed<br>For human need,<br>Limit and form since thought began.<br>This long bold mountain line is true,<br>But not those changing whims I see<br>Gleamy and vague and visionary<br>In air-built blue.<br>Deep in the soul we understand<br>Our nature's mystical demand<br>For the old sane austerities:<br>O pilgrim of a homeless land,<br>Hold fast to these.<br>Across the stumbling centuries<br>The eyes of men turn backward still<br>To a firm Cross upon a hill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Martin+Devaney">James Martin Devaney</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=415974" data-title="Outlines de James Martin Devaney" data-description="The tufted gums along the rise Stand black against the evening skies. And in the red west sombreing As daylight dies, A simple moon-the loveliest thing. I love outlines. It may be Some old wise heritage in me, For well we know that finite mind Cal..."></div> </div> </div>

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