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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418656" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Johanna Sebus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE DAM BREAKS DOWN, THE ICE-PLAIN GROWLS,<br>THE FLOODS ARISE, THE WATER HOWLS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;I'll bear thee, mother, across the swell,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis not yet high, I can wade right well.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Remember us too! in what danger are we!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy fellow-lodger, and children three!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The trembling woman!--Thou'rt going away!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She bears the mother across the spray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Quick! haste to the mound, and awhile there wait,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'll soon return, and all will be straight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mound's close by, and safe from the wet;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But take my goat too, my darling pet!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE DAM DISSOLVES, THE ICE-PLAIN GROWLS,<br>THE FLOODS DASH ON, THE WATER HOWLS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She places the mother safe on the shore;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fair Susan then turns tow'rd the flood once more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Oh whither? Oh whither? The breadth fast grows,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Both here and there the water o'erflows.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wilt venture, thou rash one, the billows to brave?&quot;<br>&quot;THEY SHALL, AND THEY MUST BE PRESERVED FROM THE WAVE!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE DAM DISAPPEARS, THE WATER GROWLS,<br>LIKE OCEAN BILLOWS IT HEAVES AND HOWLS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fair Susan returns by the way she had tried,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The waves roar around, but she turns not aside;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She reaches the mound, and the neighbour straight,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But for her and the children, alas, too late!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE DAM DISAPPEAR'D,--LIKE A SEA IT GROWLS,<br>ROUND THE HILLOCK IN CIRCLING EDDIES IT HOWLS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The foaming abyss gapes wide, and whirls round,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The women and children are borne to the ground;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The horn of the goat by one is seized fast,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, ah, they all must perish at last!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fair Susan still stands-there, untouch'd by the wave;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The youngest, the noblest, oh, who now will save?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fair Susan still stands there, as bright as a star,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, alas! all hope, all assistance is far.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The foaming waters around her roar,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To save her, no bark pushes off from the shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her gaze once again she lifts up to Heaven,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then gently away by the flood she is driven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">NO DAM, NO PLAIN! TO MARK THE PLACE<br>SOME STRAGGLING TREES ARE THE ONLY TRACE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rushing water the wilderness covers,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet Susan's image still o'er it hovers.--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The water sinks, the plains re-appear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fair Susan's lamented with many a tear,--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">May he who refuses her story to tell,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be neglected in life and in death as well!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a><div class=q>
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THE FLOODS ARISE, THE WATER HOWLS.

&quot;I'll bear thee, mother, across the swell,

'Tis not yet high, I can wade right well.&quot;

&quot;Remember us too! in what danger are we!

Thy fellow-lodger, and ..."></div>
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