<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421263" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Disillusion</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When fires have burnt your forest bare and black,<br>And you are parched and dizzy, and search in vain<br>For pools in dust unvisited of rain,<br>And shamble, lost, along a shimmering track,<br>This is the comfort of the world: “Alack!<br>So youth’s illusions die, that we may gain<br>Wisdom and strength to face our lifelong pain,<br>The truth, from which no man shall turn him back.”<br>Falter for no such melancholy lies,<br>For by one holy touch the spirit is healed<br>To know its treasure of sight and sound and scent;<br>Veil after veil the earthborn fogs arise,<br>Star beyond star the heavens are then revealed,<br>And truth is fair in love’s enlightenment.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Le+Gay+Brereton">John Le Gay Brereton</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=421263" data-title="Disillusion de John Le Gay Brereton" data-description="When fires have burnt your forest bare and black, And you are parched and dizzy, and search in vain For pools in dust unvisited of rain, And shamble, lost, along a shimmering track, This is the comfort of the world: “Alack! So youth’s illusion..."></div> </div> </div>

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