<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472534" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sun and Shadow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I look from the isle, o'er its billows of green,<br> To the billows of foam-crested blue,<br> Yon bark, that afar in the distance is seen,<br> Half dreaming, my eyes will pursue:<br> Now dark in the shadow, she scatters the spray<br> As the chaff in the stroke of the flail;<br> Now white as the sea-gull, she flies on her way,<br> The sun gleaming bright on her sail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Yet her pilot is thinking of dangers to shun,--<br> Of breakers that whiten and roar;<br> How little he cares, if in shadow or sun<br> They see him who gaze from the shore!<br> He looks to the beacon that looms from the reef,<br> To the rock that is under his lee,<br> As he drifts on the blast, like a wind-wafted leaf,<br> O'er the gulfs of the desolate sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Thus drifting afar to the dim-vaulted caves<br> Where life and its ventures are laid,<br> The dreamers who gaze while we battle the waves<br> May see us in sunshine or shade;<br> Yet true to our course, though the shadows grow dark,<br> We'll trim our broad sail as before,<br> And stand by the rudder that governs the bark,<br> Nor ask how we look from the shore!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</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=472534" data-title="Sun and Shadow de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="As I look from the isle, o'er its billows of green, To the billows of foam-crested blue, Yon bark, that afar in the distance is seen, Half dreaming, my eyes will pursue: Now dark in the shadow, she scatters the spray As the chaff in the strok..."></div> </div> </div>

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