<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450321" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Before Storm</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's a grayness over the harbor like fear on the face of a woman,<br>The sob of the waves has a sound akin to a woman's cry,<br>And the deeps beyond the bar are moaning with evil presage<br>Of a storm that will leap from its lair in that dour north-eastern sky. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Slowly the pale mists rise, like ghosts of the sea, in the offing,<br>Creeping all wan and chilly by headland and sunken reef,<br>And a wind is wailing and keening like a lost thing 'mid the islands,<br>Boding of wreck and tempest, plaining of dolor and grief. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Swiftly the boats come homeward, over the grim bar crowding,<br>Like birds that flee to their shelter in hurry and affright,<br>Only the wild grey gulls that love the cloud and the clamor<br>Will dare to tempt the ways of the ravining sea to-night. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the ship that sailed at the dawning, manned by the lads who love us­<br>God help and pity her when the storm is loosed on her track!<br>O women, we pray to-night and keep a vigil of sorrow<br>For those we speed at the dawning and may never welcome back!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lucy+Maud+Montgomery">Lucy Maud Montgomery</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=450321" data-title="Before Storm de Lucy Maud Montgomery" data-description="There's a grayness over the harbor like fear on the face of a woman, The sob of the waves has a sound akin to a woman's cry, And the deeps beyond the bar are moaning with evil presage Of a storm that will leap from its lair in that dour north-east..."></div> </div> </div>

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