<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sic Transit</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sudden summer laughter wave lift-drifts. Lush vale <br>stirs startled, sweating afternoon. Echo's no avail, <br>for sounds are swiftly smothered, as if some spider’s veil<br>Present, Past, Hereafter, threads, cocooning mortal wail.<br> <br>Slowly drifting over sun-sparkling sylvan stream’s <br>springs and falls, bright sunlit halls, where silver salmon teems, <br>that fisher’s mind recalls far larger than his life-size dreams.<br>Scene subtle, suddenly disturbed, is smashed to smithereens.<br> <br>Beasts tied to dry land try Time’s patience, thresher’s flail, <br>Brash bipeds too, though new, shall pass, ~ such small detail, ~ <br>their lice must perish too, should spiders tell spun tale? <br>Arachnidae survive where flies die, race over, trace trails fail.<br> <br>The crush-rush mortals know no wind-blown stones record <br>when hush dawn’s blushing show will welcome silence sans discord...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(23 March 1975 revised 3 August 2007,27 May 2008 robi03_0053) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For previous versions see below<br>Sic Transit<br>Sudden summer laughter wave lift-drifts through lush vale, <br>stirs, startles afternoon; - echo of no avail, <br>for sounds are smothered soon, as if some spider’s veil<br>Present, Past, Hereafter, surrounds â€&quot; cocoons prevail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Slowly drifting over sun-sparkling sylvan stream’s, <br>springs and falls, sunlit halls, where silver salmon teems<br>that fisher’s mind recalls far larger than his dreams, -<br>scene one sun, supernova, flash beams to smithereens.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beasts tied to dry land try Time’s patience, thresher’s flail; <br>Brash bipeds too, though new, shall pass, ~ such small detail, ~ <br>their lice must perish too, will insects tell their tale? <br>Who’d fly shall also die, race over, trace trails fail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The crush, the rush, we know, what wind-blown stone records <br>when hush dawn’s blushing show welcomes without discord...? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(3 August 2007) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sic Transit Gloria Mundi<br>Scented summer laughter, softly sifting through the vale, <br>stirs the silence sixty seconds, though all to no avail, <br>as the sound is swiftly smothered, as if by spider’s veil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Slowly drifting over the rushing mountain streams, -<br>those springs and falls, the sunlit halls, where silver salmon teems, -<br>in which for scaly fare oft search the fearsome fishing teams.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Birds fly through sky, beasts try dry land, too soon both trails must fail, <br>brash bipeds too, though still so new, will pass, ~ such small detail, ~ <br>leaving their lice to linger on, insects to tell their tale! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(23 March 1975)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</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=425958" data-title="Sic Transit de Jonathan Robin" data-description="Sudden summer laughter wave lift-drifts. Lush vale stirs startled, sweating afternoon. Echo's no avail, for sounds are swiftly smothered, as if some spider’s veil Present, Past, Hereafter, threads, cocooning mortal wail. Slowly drifting..."></div> </div> </div>

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