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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431131" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Friend's Shadow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sunt aliquid manes; letum non omnia finit; <br>Luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos. <br>  PROPERTIUS. <br>_ __ </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>To Albion's misty isle across the waves I sped me: <br>It look'd as if interr'd beneath a leaden sea, <br>And gathering round our bark the halcyon's music led me, <br>While all the crew rejoiced in their sweet melody. <br>The dancing surge, the evening breezes falling, <br>And through the sails and shrouds those breezes whistling thrill, <br>And to the watch the active helmsman calling, <br>The watch, who, midst the roar, sleeps tranquilly and still. <br>All seem'd to rock itself to gentle thought; <br>Like an enchanted one, I, from the mast, look'd forth, <br>And through the night and through the mist I sought, <br>I sought the star beloved of my domestic north. <br>Then into memory melted every feeling— <br>My soul had sanctified my home of joy and peace, <br>And the sea raging, and the zephyrs gently stealing, <br>Cover'd my eyelids o'er with self-forgetfulness. <br>Then dreams with other dreams were blended, <br>And lo! there stood— was it a dream?— the form <br>Of that dear friend who his career had ended <br>Nobly, amidst the thundering battle storm. <br>He stood upon the mist, and smiled— his face, <br>Fresh as the morn and bloodless, shining <br>Like the young spring in gaiety and grace, <br>Even as an angel from high heaven declining:— <br>'Comrade of better time! and is it thou? <br>And is it thou?' I cried, 'thou hero bright! <br>Did I not in the fury of the fight <br>Attend thee— and when thou hadst fallen below <br>Make thy new grave— and on a neighbouring tree <br>Write with my sword thy feats of bravery, <br>And follow'd thy cold ashes to their bed, <br>And hallow'd it with prayers, and with tears watered? <br>Speak, unforgotten one! speak! was it a deceit? <br>Is all that's past a dream— a cheating dream? <br>A dream that corpse— a dream that grave— that sheet <br>Wrapt round thee— were they not— did they but seem? <br>O but one word! let that tongue's melody <br>Yet sweetly fall on my transported ear: <br>O unforgotten one! stretch out to me <br>Thy old right hand of friendship— stretch it here.' <br>I sprung towards him— Oh! the mists had dimm'd my eye— <br>He vanish'd like a shade— a lock of airy smoke— <br>Dispersed in the wide azure of the sky, <br>And I, arousing from my dream, awoke. <br> Beneath the wing of stillness all was sleeping; <br>The very winds— the very waves, at rest; <br>And scarce a breath upon the sea was creeping; <br>The pale moon swam along upon the white cloud's breast. <br>But I was troubled— peace had left my soul— <br>I stretch'd my hands tow'rds him, whom I no more could see— <br>I called on him— whom I could not control— <br>On thee— belov'd one! best of friends! on thee!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Konstantin+Nikolaevich+Batiushkov">Konstantin Nikolaevich Batiushkov</a><div class=q>
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Luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos. 
  PROPERTIUS. 
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To Albion's misty isle across the waves I sped me: 
It look'd as if interr'd beneath a leaden sea, 
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