<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472623" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To An English Friend</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE seed that wasteful autumn cast<br>To waver on its stormy blast,<br>Long o'er the wintry desert tost,<br>Its living germ has never lost.<br>Dropped by the weary tempest's wing,<br>It feels the kindling ray of spring,<br>And, starting from its dream of death,<br>Pours on the air its perfumed breath.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, parted by the rolling flood,<br>The love that springs from common blood<br>Needs but a single sunlit hour<br>Of mingling smiles to bud and flower;<br>Unharmed its slumbering life has flown,<br>From shore to shore, from zone to zone,<br>Where summer's falling roses stain<br>The tepid waves of Pontchartrain,<br>Or where the lichen creeps below<br>Katahdin's wreaths of whirling snow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though fiery sun and stiffening cold<br>May change the fair ancestral mould,<br>No winter chills, no summer drains<br>The life-blood drawn from English veins,<br>Still bearing wheresoe'er it flows<br>The love that with its fountain rose,<br>Unchanged by space, unwronged by time,<br>From age to age, from clime to clime!</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=472623" data-title="To An English Friend de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="THE seed that wasteful autumn cast To waver on its stormy blast, Long o'er the wintry desert tost, Its living germ has never lost. Dropped by the weary tempest's wing, It feels the kindling ray of spring, And, starting from its dream of death, Pou..."></div> </div> </div>

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