<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428724" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Open Road</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE roads of the Sea<br>Are thronged with merchantmen; <br>East and West, North and South<br>They go and come again. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All precious merchandise<br>They bear in their hold: <br>Lest the people be starving<br>In the night and cold. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now tell me, good merchants, <br>How this thing can be<br>That the white ships are thronging<br>The roads of the sea? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there's death in the skies<br>And there's death on the earth; <br>And men talked of famine<br>And a frozen hearth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet the ships they go crowding<br>The roads of the sea; <br>They bring home their treasures<br>To you and to me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O listen, good people, <br>And hearing, praise God, <br>That the watch-dogs are keeping<br>The ships on their road! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They sit watchful and steady<br>Where the North winds blow; <br>Sleepless they are keeping<br>The roads the ships go. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the day, in the hour, <br>They will spring--until then, <br>Their eyes keep the courses<br>Of the merchantmen. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Forget not, good people, <br>When ye heap the white board, <br>When ye draw to the hearth-fire, <br>To praise the Lord, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That the watch-dogs unsleeping<br>Keep the roads of the Sea, <br>Up by the Northern Lights <br>Where the great ships be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katharine+Tynan">Katharine Tynan</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=428724" data-title="The Open Road de Katharine Tynan" data-description="THE roads of the Sea Are thronged with merchantmen; East and West, North and South They go and come again. All precious merchandise They bear in their hold: Lest the people be starving In the night and cold. Now tell me, good merchants, How..."></div> </div> </div>

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