<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447213" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Teacher</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Cross is slanting ‘tween two withered trees -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw him first in peace, amid a crowd<br>Of streets, nor dreamed him ever one of these,<br>So wistfully he mused, so shyly proud,<br>So chalk-besmeared he walked his weary pace.<br>A space went, - and on an early day<br>Within the trench, I saw a half-known face<br>Awake with wonder; a child-lived heart at play<br>With dreamed romance: a Drake-keen eye ashine<br>For newer worlds……A thunder tore the line!…..<br>A shell burst!….. He smiled as Sidney smiled-<br>And fell…..There came the crying of a child,<br>…..A wave of little hands…..a soft breeze</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cross is slanting ‘tween two withered trees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Leon+Gellert">Leon Gellert</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=447213" data-title="The Teacher de Leon Gellert" data-description="A Cross is slanting ‘tween two withered trees - I saw him first in peace, amid a crowd Of streets, nor dreamed him ever one of these, So wistfully he mused, so shyly proud, So chalk-besmeared he walked his weary pace. A space went, - and on an ..."></div> </div> </div>

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