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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418766" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Eagle And The Dove</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">IN search of prey once raised his pinions<br>An eaglet;<br>A huntsman's arrow came, and reft<br>His right wing of all motive power.<br>Headlong he fell into a myrtle grove,<br>For three long days on anguish fed,<br>In torment writhed<br>Throughout three long, three weary nights;<br>And then was cured,<br>Thanks to all-healing Nature's<br>Soft, omnipresent balm.<br>He crept away from out the copse,<br>And stretch'd his wing--alas!<br>Lost is all power of flight--<br>He scarce can lift himself<br>From off the ground<br>To catch some mean, unworthy prey,<br>And rests, deep-sorrowing,<br>On the low rock beside the stream.<br>Up to the oak he looks,<br>Looks up to heaven,<br>While in his noble eye there gleams a tear.<br>Then, rustling through the myrtle boughs, behold,<br>There comes a wanton pair of doves,<br>Who settle down, and, nodding, strut<br>O'er the gold sands beside the stream,<br>And gradually approach;<br>Their red-tinged eyes, so full of love,<br>Soon see the inward-sorrowing one.<br>The male, inquisitively social, leaps<br>On the next bush, and looks<br>Upon him kindly and complacently.<br>&quot;Thou sorrowest,&quot; murmurs he:<br>&quot;Be of good cheer, my friend!<br>All that is needed for calm happiness<br>Hast thou not here?<br>Hast thou not pleasure in the golden bough<br>That shields thee from the day's fierce glow?<br>Canst thou not raise thy breast to catch,<br>On the soft moss beside the brook,<br>The sun's last rays at even?<br>Here thou mayst wander through the flowers' fresh dew,<br>Pluck from the overflow<br>The forest-trees provide,<br>Thy choicest food,--mayst quench<br>Thy light thirst at the silvery spring.<br>Oh friend, true happiness<br>Lies in contentedness,<br>And that contentedness<br>Finds everywhere enough.&quot;<br>&quot;Oh, wise one!&quot; said the eagle, while he sank<br>In deep and ever deep'ning thought--<br>&quot;Oh Wisdom! like a dove thou speakest!&quot;</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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An eaglet;
A huntsman's arrow came, and reft
His right wing of all motive power.
Headlong he fell into a myrtle grove,
For three long days on anguish fed,
In torment writhed
Throughout three long, three we..."></div>
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