<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416924" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>While The Musician Played</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O it was but a dream I had<br>While the musician played!--<br>And here the sky, and here the glad<br>Old ocean kissed the glade--<br>And here the laughing ripples ran,<br>And here the roses grew<br>That threw a kiss to every man<br>That voyaged with the crew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our silken sails in lazy folds<br>Drooped in the breathless breeze:<br>As o'er a field of marigolds<br>Our eyes swam o'er the seas;<br>While here the eddies lisped and purled<br>Around the island's rim,<br>And up from out the underworld<br>We saw the mermen swim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And it was dawn and middle-day<br>And midnight--for the moon<br>On silver rounds across the bay<br>Had climbed the skies of June--<br>And there the glowing, glorious king<br>Of day ruled o'er his realm,<br>With stars of midnight glittering<br>About his diadem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The seagull reeled on languid wing<br>In circles round the mast,<br>We heard the songs the sirens sing<br>As we went sailing past;<br>And up and down the golden sands<br>A thousand fairy throngs<br>Flung at us from their flashing hands<br>The echoes of their songs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O it was but a dream I had<br>While the musician played--<br>For here the sky, and here the glad<br>Old ocean kissed the glade;<br>And here the laughing ripples ran,<br>And here the roses grew<br>That threw a kiss to every man<br>That voyaged with the crew.</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=416924" data-title="While The Musician Played de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="O it was but a dream I had While the musician played!-- And here the sky, and here the glad Old ocean kissed the glade-- And here the laughing ripples ran, And here the roses grew That threw a kiss to every man That voyaged with the crew. Our sil..."></div> </div> </div>

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