<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428757" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Vigil</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At night, when all the house is still,<br>Wide-waked the chairs and tables come<br>And yawn and stretch their limbs until<br>The maids appear with pan and broom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through the dim hours they creak and groan,<br>Their laughter plays with tyrant Man,<br>Shaken with stiff derision<br>For his pretensions and his span.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where's then their willing servitude ?<br>Meek slaves for their creator's use.<br>They make a mock of flesh and blood<br>That passes with a morning's dews.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The heart that once leaped in the tree<br>Yet lives in the fantastic shapes<br>That foolish Man hath made to be --<br>But see how wide yon cupboard gapes!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With ' Yours' and 'Mine' they make great sport,<br>Who saw us come and see us go,<br>And will be when no least report<br>Of us but what a stone can show.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When ghosts and owlets flit abroad,<br>The furniture's awake, aware,<br>The floor complaining of its load,<br>And what a creaking of the stair.</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=428757" data-title="Vigil de Katharine Tynan" data-description="At night, when all the house is still, Wide-waked the chairs and tables come And yawn and stretch their limbs until The maids appear with pan and broom. Through the dim hours they creak and groan, Their laughter plays with tyrant Man, Shaken with..."></div> </div> </div>

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