<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416715" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>North And South</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of the North I wove a dream,<br>All bespangled with the gleam<br>Of the glancing wings of swallows<br>Dipping ripples in a stream,<br>That, like a tide of wine,<br>Wound through lands of shade and shine<br>Where purple grapes hung bursting on the vine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And where orchard-boughs were bent<br>Till their tawny fruitage blent<br>With the golden wake that marked the<br>Way the happy reapers went;<br>Where the dawn died into noon<br>As the May-mists into June,<br>And the dusk fell like a sweet face in a swoon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of the South I dreamed: And there<br>Came a vision clear and fair<br>As the marvelous enchantments<br>Of the mirage of the air;<br>And I saw the bayou-trees,<br>With their lavish draperies,<br>Hang heavy o'er the moon-washed cypress-knees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Peering from lush fens of rice,<br>I beheld the Negro's eyes,<br>Lit with that old superstition<br>Death itself can not disguise;<br>And I saw the palm tree nod<br>Like an oriental god,<br>And the cotton froth and bubble from the pod,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I dreamed that North and South,<br>With a sigh of dew and drouth,<br>Blew each unto the other<br>The salute of lip and mouth;<br>And I wakened, awed and thrilled--<br>Every doubting murmur stilled<br>In the silence of the dream I found fulfilled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</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=416715" data-title="North And South de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="Of the North I wove a dream, All bespangled with the gleam Of the glancing wings of swallows Dipping ripples in a stream, That, like a tide of wine, Wound through lands of shade and shine Where purple grapes hung bursting on the vine. And where o..."></div> </div> </div>

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