<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416786" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Frog</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who am I but the Frog--the Frog!<br>My realm is the dark bayou,<br>And my throne is the muddy and moss-grown log<br>That the poison-vine clings to--<br>And the blacksnakes slide in the slimy tide<br>Where the ghost of the moon looks blue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What am I but a King--a King!--<br>For the royal robes I wear--<br>A scepter, too, and a signet-ring,<br>As vassals and serfs declare:<br>And a voice, god wot, that is equaled not<br>In the wide world anywhere!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can talk to the Night--the Night!--<br>Under her big black wing<br>She tells me the tale of the world outright,<br>And the secret of everything;<br>For she knows you all, from the time you crawl,<br>To the doom that death will bring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Storm swoops down, and he blows--and blows,--<br>While I drum on his swollen cheek,<br>And croak in his angered eye that glows<br>With the lurid lightning's streak;<br>While the rushes drown in the watery frown<br>That his bursting passions leak.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I can see through the sky--the sky--<br>As clear as a piece of glass;<br>And I can tell you the how and why<br>Of the things that come to pass--<br>And whether the dead are there instead,<br>Or under the graveyard grass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To your Sovereign lord all hail--all hail!--<br>To your Prince on his throne so grim!<br>Let the moon swing low, and the high stars trail<br>Their heads in the dust to him;<br>And the wide world sing: Long live the King,<br>And grace to his royal whim!</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=416786" data-title="The Frog de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="Who am I but the Frog--the Frog! My realm is the dark bayou, And my throne is the muddy and moss-grown log That the poison-vine clings to-- And the blacksnakes slide in the slimy tide Where the ghost of the moon looks blue. What am I but a King--..."></div> </div> </div>

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