<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=456088" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Time's Shadow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy life, O Man, in this brief moment lies: <br>Time's narrow bridge whereon we darkling stand, <br>With an infinitude on either hand <br>Receding luminously from our eyes. <br>Lo, there thy Past's forsaken Paradise <br>Subsideth like some visionary strand, <br>While glimmering faint, the Future's promised land, <br>Illusive from the abyss, seems fain to rise. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This hour alone Hope's broken pledges mar, <br>And joy now gleams before, now in our rear, <br>Like mirage mocking in some waste afar, <br>Dissolving into air as we draw near. <br>Beyond our steps the path is sunny-clear, <br>The shadow lying only where we are.</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> <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=456088" data-title="Time's Shadow de Mathilde Blind" data-description="Thy life, O Man, in this brief moment lies: Time's narrow bridge whereon we darkling stand, With an infinitude on either hand Receding luminously from our eyes. Lo, there thy Past's forsaken Paradise Subsideth like some visionary strand, Whi..."></div> </div> </div>

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