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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420795" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sisters</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ANNIE and Rhoda, sisters twain,<br>Woke in the night to the sound of rain,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rush of wind, the ramp and roar<br>Of great waves climbing a rocky shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Annie rose up in her bed-gown white,<br>And looked out into the storm and night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Hush, and hearken!' she cried in fear,<br>'Hearest thou nothing, sister dear?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I hear the sea, and the plash of rain,<br>And roar of the northeast hurricane.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Get thee back to the bed so warm,<br>No good comes of watching a storm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What is it to thee, I fain would know,<br>That waves are roaring and wild winds blow?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'No lover of thine's afloat to miss<br>The harbor-lights on a night like this.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But I heard a voice cry out my name,<br>Up from the sea on the wind it came.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twice and thrice have I heard it call,<br>And the voice is the voice of Estwick Hall!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On her pillow the sister tossed her head.<br>'Hall of the Heron is safe,' she said.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'In the tautest schooner that ever swam<br>He rides at anchor in Anisquam.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And, if in peril from swamping sea<br>Or lee shore rocks, would he call on thee?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the girl heard only the wind and tide,<br>And wringing her small white hands she cried,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'O sister Rhoda, there's something wrong;<br>I hear it again, so loud and long.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">''Annie! Annie!' I hear it call,<br>And the voice is the voice of Estwick Hall!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Up sprang the elder, with eyes aflame,<br>'Thou liest! He never would call thy name!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'If he did, I would pray the wind and sea<br>To keep him forever from thee and me!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then out of the sea blew a dreadful blast;<br>Like the cry of a dying man it passed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The young girl hushed on her lips a groan,<br>But through her tears a strange light shone,--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The solemn joy of her heart's release<br>To own and cherish its love in peace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Dearest!' she whispered, under breath,<br>'Life was a lie, but true is death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The love I hid from myself away<br>Shall crown me now in the light of day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'My ears shall never to wooer list,<br>Never by lover my lips be kissed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Sacred to thee am I henceforth,<br>Thou in heaven and I on earth!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She came and stood by her sister's bed<br>'Hall of the Heron is dead!' she said.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The wind and the waves their work have done,<br>We shall see him no more beneath the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Little will reek that heart of thine,<br>It loved him not with a love like mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I, for his sake, were he but here,<br>Could hem and 'broider thy bridal gear,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Though hands should tremble and eyes be wet,<br>And stitch for stitch in my heart be set.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But now my soul with his soul I wed;<br>Thine the living, and mine the dead!'</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>
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Woke in the night to the sound of rain,

The rush of wind, the ramp and roar
Of great waves climbing a rocky shore.

Annie rose up in her bed-gown white,
And looked out into the storm and night.

'Hush, and hearken!..."></div>
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