<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=432127" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Christmas Landscape</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tonight the wind gnaws<br>With teeth of glass,<br>The jackdaw shivers<br>In caged branches of iron,<br>The stars have talons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is hunger in the mouth<br>Of vole and badger,<br>Silver agonies of breath<br>In the nostril of the fox,<br>Ice on the rabbit’s paw.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tonight has no moon,<br>No food for the pilgrim;<br>The fruit tree is bare,<br>The rose bush a thorn<br>And the ground is bitter with stones.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the mole sleeps, and the hedgehog<br>Lies curled in a womb of leaves,<br>The bean and the wheat-seed<br>Hug their germs in the earth<br>And the stream moves under the ice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tonight there is no moon,<br>But a new star opens<br>Like a silver trumpet over the dead.<br>Tonight in a nest of ruins<br>The blessed babe is laid.<br>And the fir tree warms to a bloom of candles,<br>And the child lights his lantern,<br>Stares at his tinselled toy;<br>And our hearts and hearths<br>Smoulder with live ashes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the blood of our grief<br>The cold earth is suckled,<br>In our agony the womb<br>Convulses its seed;<br>In the first cry of anguish<br>The child’s first breath is born.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Laurie+Lee">Laurie Lee</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=432127" data-title="Christmas Landscape de Laurie Lee" data-description="Tonight the wind gnaws With teeth of glass, The jackdaw shivers In caged branches of iron, The stars have talons. There is hunger in the mouth Of vole and badger, Silver agonies of breath In the nostril of the fox, Ice on the rabbit’s paw. Ton..."></div> </div> </div>

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