<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=456496" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cadmus and Harmonia</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Far, far from here,<br> The Adriatic breaks in a warm bay<br> Among the green Illyrian hills; and there<br> The sunshine in the happy glens is fair,<br> And by the sea, and in the brakes.<br> The grass is cool, the sea-side air<br> Buoyant and fresh, the mountain flowers<br> More virginal and sweet than ours. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And there, they say, two bright and aged snakes,<br> Who once were Cadmus and Harmonia,<br> Bask in the glens or on the warm sea-shore,<br> In breathless quiet, after all their ills;<br> Nor do they see their country, nor the place<br> Where the Sphinx lived among the frowning hills,<br> Nor the unhappy palace of their race,<br> Nor Thebes, nor the Ismenus, any more. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> There those two live, far in the Illyrian brakes!<br> They had stay'd long enough to see,<br> In Thebes, the billow of calamity<br> Over their own dear children roll'd, <br> Curse upon curse, pang upon pang, <br> For years, they sitting helpless in their home, <br> A grey old man and woman; yet of old <br> The Gods had to their marriage come, <br> And at the banquet all the Muses sang. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Therefore they did not end their days <br> In sight of blood, but were rapt, far away, <br> To where the west-wind plays,<br> And murmurs of the Adriatic come <br> To those untrodden mountain-lawns; and there <br> Placed safely in changed forms, the pair <br> Wholly forgot their first sad life, and home, <br> And all that Theban woe, and stray <br> For ever through the glens, placid and dumb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Arnold">Matthew Arnold</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=456496" data-title="Cadmus and Harmonia de Matthew Arnold" data-description="Far, far from here, The Adriatic breaks in a warm bay Among the green Illyrian hills; and there The sunshine in the happy glens is fair, And by the sea, and in the brakes. The grass is cool, the sea-side air Buoyant and fresh, the mountain f..."></div> </div> </div>

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