<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428520" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Eavesdropping</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THOUGH the winds but stir on their hoary thrones<br>Of hemlock and pungent pine,<br>All the whispering woodland tones<br>Gossip of things divine, —<br>Why God is gray in the granite rock,<br>And green in the lichen flake,<br>And swift in the darting swallow-flock,<br>And slow in the lapping lake;<br>Why God is sweet in the hermit-thrush,<br>And hoarse in the frog; and why<br>His touch on the bee is golden plush,<br>And gauze on the stinging fly;<br>Why God is life in the mushroom there,<br>And death in the toadstool here;<br>Mirth in the dancing maidenhair;<br>In its hidden adder, fear.<br>Oh, if this berry that stains my lip<br>Could teach me the woodland chat,<br>Science would bow to my scholarship,<br>And Theology doff the hat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katharine+Lee+Bates">Katharine Lee Bates</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=428520" data-title="Eavesdropping de Katharine Lee Bates" data-description="THOUGH the winds but stir on their hoary thrones Of hemlock and pungent pine, All the whispering woodland tones Gossip of things divine, — Why God is gray in the granite rock, And green in the lichen flake, And swift in the darting swallow-flock..."></div> </div> </div>

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