<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428454" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sunday: New Guinea</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bugle sounds the measured call to prayers, <br>The band starts bravely with a clarion hymn, <br>From every side, singly, in groups, in pairs, <br>Each to his kind of service comes to worship Him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our faces washed, our hearts in the right place, <br>We kneel or stand or listen from our tents; <br>Half-naked natives with their kind of grace <br>Move down the road with balanced staffs like mendicants. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And over the hill the guns bang like a door <br>And planes repeat their mission in the heights. <br>The jungle outmaneuvers creeping war <br>And crawls within the circle of our sacred rites. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I long for our disheveled Sundays home, <br>Breakfast, the comics, news of latest crimes, <br>Talk without reference, and palindromes, <br>Sleep and the Philharmonic and the ponderous Times. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I long for lounging in the afternoons <br>Of clean intelligent warmth, my brother’s mind, <br>Books and thin plates and flowers and shining spoons, <br>And your love’s presence, snowy, beautiful, and kind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Karl+Shapiro">Karl Shapiro</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=428454" data-title="Sunday: New Guinea de Karl Shapiro" data-description="The bugle sounds the measured call to prayers, The band starts bravely with a clarion hymn, From every side, singly, in groups, in pairs, Each to his kind of service comes to worship Him. Our faces washed, our hearts in the right place, We k..."></div> </div> </div>

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