<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420754" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Palm-Tree</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it the palm, the cocoa-palm,<br>On the Indian Sea, by the isles of balm?<br>Or is it a ship in the breezeless calm?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A ship whose keel is of palm beneath,<br>Whose ribs of palm have a palm-bark sheath,<br>And a rudder of palm it steereth with.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Branches of palm are its spars and rails,<br>Fibres of palm are its woven sails,<br>And the rope is of palm that idly trails!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What does the good ship bear so well?<br>The cocoa-nut with its stony shell,<br>And the milky sap of its inner cell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What are its jars, so smooth and fine,<br>But hollowed nuts, filled with oil and wine,<br>And the cabbage that ripens under the Line?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who smokes his nargileh, cool and calm?<br>The master, whose cunning and skill could charm<br>Cargo and ship from the bounteous palm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the cabin he sits on a palm-mat soft,<br>From a beaker of palm his drink is quaffed,<br>And a palm-thatch shields from the sun aloft!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His dress is woven of palmy strands,<br>And he holds a palm-leaf scroll in his hands,<br>Traced with the Prophet's wise commands!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The turban folded about his head<br>Was daintily wrought of the palm-leaf braid,<br>And the fan that cools him of palm was made.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of threads of palm was the carpet spun<br>Whereon he kneels when the day is done,<br>And the foreheads of Islam are bowed as one!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To him the palm is a gift divine,<br>Wherein all uses of man combine,--<br>House, and raiment, and food, and wine!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, in the hour of his great release,<br>His need of the palm shall only cease<br>With the shroud wherein he lieth in peace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Allah il Allah!' he sings his psalm,<br>On the Indian Sea, by the isles of balm;<br>'Thanks to Allah who gives the palm!'</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=420754" data-title="The Palm-Tree de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="Is it the palm, the cocoa-palm, On the Indian Sea, by the isles of balm? Or is it a ship in the breezeless calm? A ship whose keel is of palm beneath, Whose ribs of palm have a palm-bark sheath, And a rudder of palm it steereth with. Branches of..."></div> </div> </div>

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