<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459566" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Commonplace Day (after Thomas Hardy's poem of that name)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">All day from dawn to dusk, the drizzling rain; <br>everything today is painted grey; <br>and as for me - I shut my heart, alas; <br>and took that paint and washed my mind with grey…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Outside the window, just a pane away: <br>the eager soil, the leaves of plant and tree<br>bathe and sing and grow and shine with praise; <br>yet why do I not hear that song, in me? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">more feeble I than plant or soil or tree; <br>I cannot even sing their humble praise; <br>why build a house against the water’s grace, <br>and leave my wizened heart dry, graceless, mean? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Better today would it have useful been<br>to be a raincloud; humble; generous; <br>free of grey thought that idly renders me<br>less than the least of servants of my God; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so make me grey as generous raincloud; clod<br>of saturated, grateful earth; write, rain; <br>shout, whisper, words of flowing gratitude; <br>on greying days, paint grey as purest joy; <br>and be again, that drenched and laughing boy..</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=459566" data-title="A Commonplace Day (after Thomas Hardy's poem of that name) de Michael Shepherd" data-description="All day from dawn to dusk, the drizzling rain; everything today is painted grey; and as for me - I shut my heart, alas; and took that paint and washed my mind with grey… Outside the window, just a pane away: the eager soil, the leaves of pl..."></div> </div> </div>

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