<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=456092" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To the Obelisk</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">DURING THE GREAT FROST, 1881. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Thou sign-post of the Desert! Obelisk, <br>Once fronting in thy monumental pride <br>Egypt's fierce sun, that blazing far and wide, <br>Sheared her of tree and herb, till like a disk <br>Her waste stretched shadowless, and fraught with risk <br>To those who with their beasts of burden hied <br>Across the seas of sand until they spied <br>Thy pillar, and their flagging hearts grew brisk: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now reared beside out Thames so wintry grey, <br>Where blocks of ice drift with the drifting stream, <br>Thou risest o'er the alien prospect! Say, <br>Yon dull, blear, rayless orb whose lurid gleam <br>Tinges the snow-draped ships and writhing steam, <br>Is this the sun which fired thine orient day?</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=456092" data-title="To the Obelisk de Mathilde Blind" data-description="DURING THE GREAT FROST, 1881. Thou sign-post of the Desert! Obelisk, Once fronting in thy monumental pride Egypt's fierce sun, that blazing far and wide, Sheared her of tree and herb, till like a disk Her waste stretched shadowless, and fra..."></div> </div> </div>

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