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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=456054" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Desert</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Uncircumscribed, unmeasured, vast, <br>Eternal as the Sea; <br>What lacks the tidal sea thou hast-- <br>Profound stability. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beneath the sun that burns and brands <br>In hushed Noon's halting breath, <br>Calm as the Sphinx upon thy sands <br>Thou art--nay, calm as death. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The desert foxes hide in holes, <br>The jackal seeks his lair; <br>The sombre rocks, like reddening coals, <br>Glow lurid in the glare. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only some vulture far away, <br>Bald-headed, harpy-eyed, <br>Flaps down on lazy wing to prey <br>On what has lately died. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No palm tree lifts a lonely shade, <br>No dove is on the wing; <br>It seems a land which Nature made <br>Without a living thing, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or wreckage of some older world, <br>Ere children grew, or flowers, <br>When rocks and hissing stones were hurled <br>In hot, volcanic showers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The solemn Blue bends over all; <br>Far as winged thought may flee <br>Roll ridges of black mountain wall, <br>And flat sands like the sea. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No trace of footsteps to be seen, <br>No tent, no smoking roof; <br>Nay, even the vagrant Beeshareen <br>Keeps warily aloof. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But yon, mid tumbled hillocks prone, <br>Some human form I scan-- <br>A human form, indeed, but stone: <br>A cold, colossal Man! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How came he here mid piling sands, <br>Like some huge cliff enisled, <br>Osiris-wise, with folded hands, <br>Mute spirit of the Wild? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ages ago the hands that hewed, <br>And in the living rock <br>Carved this Colossus, granite-thewed <br>And curled each crispy lock: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ages ago have dropped to rest <br>And left him passive, prone, <br>Forgotten on earth's barren breast, <br>Half statue and half stone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Persia ruled and Palestine; <br>And o'er her violet seas <br>Arose, with marble gods divine, <br>The grace of god-like Greece. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Rome, the Mistress of the World, <br>Amid her diadem <br>Of Eastern Empires set impearled <br>The Scarab's mystic gem. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perchance he has been lying here <br>Since first the world began, <br>Poor Titan of some earlier sphere <br>Of prehistoric Man! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To whom we are as idle flies, <br>That fuss and buzz their day; <br>While still immutable he lies, <br>As long ago he lay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Empurpled in the Afterglow, <br>Thou, with the Sun alone, <br>Of all the stormy waste below, <br>Art King, but king of stone! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Uncircumscribed, unmeasured, vast, <br>Eternal as the Sea, <br>The present here becomes the past, <br>For all futurity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mathilde+Blind">Mathilde Blind</a><div class=q>
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Eternal as the Sea; 
What lacks the tidal sea thou hast-- 
Profound stability. 

Beneath the sun that burns and brands 
In hushed Noon's halting breath, 
Calm as the Sphinx upon thy sands 
Thou art--nay, calm as..."></div>
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