<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421280" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Middle Harbour</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lonely wonder, delight past hoping!<br>Sky-line broken by stirring trees,<br>Grey rocks hither and shoreward sloping,<br>Silent bracken about my knees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dusky scrub where the sunlight splashes,<br>Glimmer of waters barely seen<br>Here the hope that was dust and ashes<br>Leaps and flashes in flames of green.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through the boughs that are still before me,<br>Misty blue of the harbour hills;<br>Mighty Spirit of Earth who bore me,<br>Here the peace of thy love distils.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fools have harried me; hell has driven,<br>Bidding me toil for its fading shows:<br>Back I spring to your arms, forgiven,<br>Back to the truth that a dreamer knows.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gold and glory and fleeting pleasure<br>Pass in dust or as melting cloud:<br>You can dower with eternal treasure<br>Heart uplifted and head unbowed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Arms outstretched, and the hill-top hushes;<br>Long deep breath, and the whole scene fades;<br>Sweeping homeward, my soul outrushes,<br>My heart the heart of the world invades.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fleshly trammels no longer bind me,<br>Joyous, forgetting that such things be;<br>Time and space have been left behind me,<br>Brother of stars, I am soaring, free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cramped no more, I exult, extended,<br>All I think of I hold within;<br>Secret surety of vision splendid<br>Makes me one with my lordly kin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out of the vast I return, and slowly<br>Into the prison of sense I glide,<br>Yet the splendour is gone not wholly,<br>Yet the love and the peace abide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soft wind rustles the leaves, and brightly<br>Wavers the light on the ferns and trees;<br>Water-ripples are laughing lightly,<br>Played upon by the sun and breeze.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There the robin, a friendly fellow,<br>Clings to a sapling stem and waits<br>Just where I noted his breast of yellow<br>Ere I ventured beyond the gates.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only a moment, as clocks can reckon,<br>Dwells the soul at that height of heights;<br>Ah, but I know why the wood-gods beckon,<br>Why the stars are as beacon lights.</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=421280" data-title="Middle Harbour de John Le Gay Brereton" data-description="Lonely wonder, delight past hoping! Sky-line broken by stirring trees, Grey rocks hither and shoreward sloping, Silent bracken about my knees. Dusky scrub where the sunlight splashes, Glimmer of waters barely seen Here the hope that was dust and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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