<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416250" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Goat Paths</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The crooked paths go every way <br>Upon the hill - they wind about <br>Through the heather in and out <br>Of the quiet sunniness. <br>And there the goats, day after day, <br>Stray in sunny quietness, <br>Cropping here and cropping there, <br>As they pause and turn and pass, <br>Now a bit of heather spray, <br>Now a mouthful of the grass. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the deeper sunniness, <br>In the place where nothing stirs, <br>Quietly in quietness, <br>In the quiet of the furze, <br>For a time they come and lie <br>Staring on the roving sky. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you approach they run away, <br>They leap and stare, away they bound, <br>With a sudden angry sound, <br>To the sunny quietude; <br>Crouching down where nothing stirs <br>In the silence of the furze, <br>Couching down again to brood <br>In the sunny solitude. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I were as wise as they <br>I would stray apart and brood, <br>I would beat a hidden way <br>Through he quiet heather spray <br>To a sunny solitude; <br>And should you come I'd run away, <br>I would make an angry sound, <br>I would stare and turn and bound <br>To the deeper quietude, <br>To the place where nothing stirs <br>In the silence of the furze. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In that airy quietness <br>I would think as long as they; <br>Through the quiet sunniness <br>I would stray away to brood <br>By a hidden beaten way <br>In a sunny solitude. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would think until I found <br>Something I can never find, <br>Something lying on the ground, <br>In the bottom of my mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Stephens">James Stephens</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=416250" data-title="The Goat Paths de James Stephens" data-description="The crooked paths go every way Upon the hill - they wind about Through the heather in and out Of the quiet sunniness. And there the goats, day after day, Stray in sunny quietness, Cropping here and cropping there, As they pause and turn and..."></div> </div> </div>

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