<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460574" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0091 The Scholar - A Dutch portrait</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The scholar, in his book-lined study, sits, <br>walled in by printed thought in black and white; <br>silent; by a pool of lamplight lit; <br>now still in reading, or now drawn to write; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">inaudible, the music of his mind, <br>invisible, that dazzling light, his thought; <br>unknown, the destiny of human kind; <br>unwrit, the future glories to be sought; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">he like a human hour-glass: single grains<br>passing into future mind from past; <br>and in his presence, all Creation reigns, <br>the history of the world from first to last.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">this secret glory, scholars are allowed; <br>so fragile; mortal; subtle; noble; proud.</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=460574" data-title="0091 The Scholar - A Dutch portrait de Michael Shepherd" data-description="The scholar, in his book-lined study, sits, walled in by printed thought in black and white; silent; by a pool of lamplight lit; now still in reading, or now drawn to write; inaudible, the music of his mind, invisible, that dazzling light, h..."></div> </div> </div>

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