<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427781" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Northern River</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When summer days grow harsh<br>my thoughts return to my river,<br>fed by white mountain springs,<br>beloved of the shy bird, the bellbird,<br>whose cry is like falling water.<br>O nighted with the green vine,<br>lit with the rock-lilies,<br>the river speaks in the silence,<br>and my heart will also be quiet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where your valley grows wide in the plains<br>they have felled the trees, wild river.<br>Your course they have checked, and altered<br>your sweet Alcaic metre.<br>Not the grey kangaroo, deer-eyes, timorous,<br>will come to your pools at dawn;<br>but, their tamed and humbled herds<br>will muddy the watering places.<br>Passing their roads and cities<br>you will not escape unsoiled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But where, grown old and weary,<br>stagnant among the mangroves,<br>you hope no longer – there on a sudden<br>with a shock like joy, beats up<br>the cold clean pulse of the tide,<br>the touch of sea in greeting;<br>the sea that encompasses<br>all sorrow and delight<br>and holds the memories<br>of every stream and river.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Judith+Wright">Judith Wright</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=427781" data-title="Northern River de Judith Wright" data-description="When summer days grow harsh my thoughts return to my river, fed by white mountain springs, beloved of the shy bird, the bellbird, whose cry is like falling water. O nighted with the green vine, lit with the rock-lilies, the river speaks in the sil..."></div> </div> </div>

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