<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=465052" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ponder how He died, despairing once.<br>I've heard the cry subside in vacant skies,<br>In clearings where no other was. Despair,<br>Which, in the vibrant wake of utterance,<br>Resides in desolate calm, preoccupies,<br>Though it is still. There is no solace there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That calm inhabits wilderness, the sea,<br>And where no peace inheres but solitude;<br>Near death it most impends. It was for Him,<br>Absurd and public in His agony,<br>Inscrutably itself, nor misconstrued,<br>Nor metaphrased in art or pseudonym:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A vague contagion. Old, the mural fades...<br>Reminded of the fainter sea I scanned,<br>I recollect: How mute in constancy!<br>I could not leave the wall of palisades<br>Till cormorants returned my eyes on land.<br>The mural but implies eternity:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not death, but silence after death is change.<br>Judean hills, the endless afternoon,<br>The farther groves and arbors seasonless<br>But fix the mind within the moment's range.<br>Where evening would obscure our sorrow soon,<br>There shines too much a sterile loveliness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No imprecisions of commingled shade,<br>No shimmering deceptions of the sun,<br>Herein no semblances remark the cold<br>Unhindered swell of time, for time is stayed.<br>The Passion wanes into oblivion,<br>And time and timelessness confuse, I'm told.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These centuries removed from either fact<br>Have lain upon the critical expanse<br>And been of little consequence. The void<br>Is calendared in stone; the human act,<br>Outrageous, is in vain. The hours advance<br>Like flecks of foam borne landward and destroyed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Navarre+Scott+Momaday">Navarre Scott Momaday</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=465052" data-title="Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion de Navarre Scott Momaday" data-description="I ponder how He died, despairing once. I've heard the cry subside in vacant skies, In clearings where no other was. Despair, Which, in the vibrant wake of utterance, Resides in desolate calm, preoccupies, Though it is still. There is no solace the..."></div> </div> </div>

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