<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447218" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wrecked Aeroplane</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unhappy craft of Daedalus reborn,<br>That liest prone with white wings torn,<br>And, like some giant prehistoric bird, with throb-<br>bing sound<br>Doest beat they wings on unresponsive ground.<br>Forlorn! Forlorn!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This very morn didst set out with thy plume<br>Yet damp from thine Icarian tomb,<br>To plough in mirth again the Stygian wave. With<br>launching cry<br>And sails outset didst dive the unattempted sky<br>To doom! To doom!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The early reaper at the start of day<br>Pauses ‘mid the falling hay,<br>And stands in wond’ring gaze, with eyes upturned<br>to watch they flight;<br>To him dost seem some goblin that the lifting nigh<br>Hath gone astray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">About thee in they meteor flight along<br>The shore, the shrieking sea birds throng<br>In clustered clouds of angry rivalry, and skim the<br>sea<br>To rise and dip again, and follow with their free<br>Wild tuneless song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unfledged, untimely birdling of a breath!<br>No useless shroud hast thou, nor wreath.<br>They flight was brief, yet wert thou eagle-hearted<br>as of yore.<br>When fearlessly didst flee that alien Cretan shore<br>To sink in death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now the furrowed earth holds fast they wings,<br>While far afield the ox-bell rings<br>A strange, soft dirge. Thy blood is dropping on<br>the frightened grass;<br>The night is hushed. A sad, scarce-moving breeze<br>doth pass,<br>And passing sings.</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=447218" data-title="The Wrecked Aeroplane de Leon Gellert" data-description="Unhappy craft of Daedalus reborn, That liest prone with white wings torn, And, like some giant prehistoric bird, with throb- bing sound Doest beat they wings on unresponsive ground. Forlorn! Forlorn! This very morn didst set out with thy plume Ye..."></div> </div> </div>

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