<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=429720" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Chessmen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHAFING on flags of ebony and pearl, <br>My paladins are waiting. Loops of smoke <br>Stoop slowly from the coffee-cups, and curl <br>In thin fantastic patterns down the room <br>By cabinets of chinaware, to whirl <br>With milky-blue tobacco-steam, and fume <br>Together past our pipes, outside the door. <br>Soon may we lounge in silence, O my friend, <br>Behind those carven men-at-arms of chess <br>Dyed coral-red with dragon's blood, and spend <br>The night with noiseless warfare. Queens and rooks <br>With chiselled ivory warriors must contend <br>And counter-plots from old Arabian books <br>Be conjured to the march of knights and pawns.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Kenneth+Slessor">Kenneth Slessor</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=429720" data-title="Chessmen de Kenneth Slessor" data-description="CHAFING on flags of ebony and pearl, My paladins are waiting. Loops of smoke Stoop slowly from the coffee-cups, and curl In thin fantastic patterns down the room By cabinets of chinaware, to whirl With milky-blue tobacco-steam, and fume Toge..."></div> </div> </div>

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