<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=464618" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Shadow of Extinction</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Numerous hawks, hapless and helpless<br>Are sitting downcast on the ground <br>Amid the dry leafless forest, <br>Discarding the high zone of their flight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their eyes are impressionless, <br>Wings clipped and tails curtailed, <br>Their claws: the hunting instruments <br>Cramped and contracted inward.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They are drowsing and nodding, <br>In a state of oblivion, <br>As forgetfulness to the ancient history. <br>Around them is a conflagration <br>Engulfing the woods, <br>The agent of autumnal wind assists the blaze, <br>The circle is belittling at each moment; <br>But the hawks with the wings clipped<br>Tails curtailed, contracted claws<br>Drowsing eyes, nodding heads, <br>Are waiting for the encroaching doom, <br>Beneath the murkiness of smoke: <br>Stretching over the shadow of extinction, <br>And far above hover the bats and owls, <br>Challenging the hawks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Muhammad+Shanazar">Muhammad Shanazar</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=464618" data-title="The Shadow of Extinction de Muhammad Shanazar" data-description="Numerous hawks, hapless and helpless Are sitting downcast on the ground Amid the dry leafless forest, Discarding the high zone of their flight. Their eyes are impressionless, Wings clipped and tails curtailed, Their claws: the hunting instrum..."></div> </div> </div>

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