<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420636" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Storm On Lake Asquam</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A cloud, like that the old-time Hebrew saw<br>On Carmel prophesying rain, began<br>To lift itself o'er wooded Cardigan,<br>Growing and blackening. Suddenly, a flaw</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of chill wind menaced; then a strong blast beat<br>Down the long valley's murmuring pines, and woke<br>The noon-dream of the sleeping lake, and broke<br>Its smooth steel mirror at the mountains' feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thunderous and vast, a fire-veined darkness swept<br>Over the rough pine-bearded Asquam range;<br>A wraith of tempest, wonderful and strange,<br>From peak to peak the cloudy giant stepped.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One moment, as if challenging the storm,<br>Chocorua's tall, defiant sentinel<br>Looked from his watch-tower; then the shadow fell,<br>And the wild rain-drift blotted out his form.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And over all the still unhidden sun,<br>Weaving its light through slant-blown veils of rain,<br>Smiled on the trouble, as hope smiles on pain;<br>And, when the tumult and the strife were done,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With one foot on the lake and one on land,<br>Framing within his crescent's tinted streak<br>A far-off picture of the Melvin peak,<br>Spent broken clouds the rainbow's angel spanned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Greenleaf+Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</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=420636" data-title="Storm On Lake Asquam de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="A cloud, like that the old-time Hebrew saw On Carmel prophesying rain, began To lift itself o'er wooded Cardigan, Growing and blackening. Suddenly, a flaw Of chill wind menaced; then a strong blast beat Down the long valley's murmuring pines, and..."></div> </div> </div>

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