<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428993" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wilderness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I came too late to the hills: they were swept bare<br>Winters before I was born of song and story,<br>Of spell or speech with power of oracle or invocation,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The great ash long dead by a roofless house, its branches rotten,<br>The voice of the crows an inarticulate cry,<br>And from the wells and springs the holy water ebbed away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A child I ran in the wind on a withered moor<br>Crying out after those great presences who were not there,<br>Long lost in the forgetfulness of the forgotten.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only the archaic forms themselves could tell!<br>In sacred speech of hoodie on gray stone, or hawk in air,<br>Of Eden where the lonely rowan bends over the dark pool.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet I have glimpsed the bright mountain behind the mountain,<br>Knowledge under the leaves, tasted the bitter berries red,<br>Drunk water cold and clear from an inexhaustible hidden fountain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Kathleen+Jessie+Raine">Kathleen Jessie Raine</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=428993" data-title="The Wilderness de Kathleen Jessie Raine" data-description="I came too late to the hills: they were swept bare Winters before I was born of song and story, Of spell or speech with power of oracle or invocation, The great ash long dead by a roofless house, its branches rotten, The voice of the crows an ina..."></div> </div> </div>

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