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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=473269" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lotus Leaves</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I -<br>There is no peace beneath the moon,-<br>Ah! in those meadows is there peace<br>Where, girdled with a silver fleece,<br>As a bright shepherd, strays the moon? -<br>Queen of the gardens of the sky,<br>Where stars like lilies, white and fair,<br>Shine through the mists of frosty air,<br>Oh, tarry, for the dawn is nigh! -<br>Oh, tarry, for the envious day<br>Stretches long hands to catch thy feet.<br>Alas! but thou art overfleet,<br>Alas! I know thou wilt not stay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II -<br>Eastward the dawn has broken red,<br>The circling mists and shadows flee;<br>Aurora rises from the sea,<br>And leaves the crocus-flowered bed. -<br>Eastward the silver arrows fall,<br>Splintering the veil of holy night:<br>And a long wave of yellow light<br>Breaks silently on tower and hall. -<br>And speeding wide across the wold<br>Wakes into flight some fluttering bird;<br>And all the chestnut tops are stirred,<br>And all the branches streaked with gold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III -<br>To outer senses there is peace,<br>A dream-like peace on either hand,<br>Deep silence in the shadowy land,<br>Deep silence where the shadows cease, -<br>Save for a cry that echoes shrill<br>From some lone bird disconsolate;<br>A curlew calling to its mate;<br>The answer from the distant hill. -<br>And, herald of my love to Him <br>Who, waiting for the dawn, doth lie,<br>The orbed maiden leaves the sky,<br>And the white firs grow more dim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV -<br>Up sprang the sun to run his race,<br>The breeze blew fair on meadow and lea,<br>But in the west I seemed to see<br>The likeness of a human face. -<br>A linnet on the hawthorn spray<br>Sang of the glories of the spring,<br>And made the flow'ring copses ring<br>With gladness for the new-born day. -<br>A lark from out the grass I trod<br>Flew wildly, and was lost to view<br>In the great seamless veil of blue<br>That hangs before the face of God. -<br>The willow whispered overhead<br>That death is but a newer life<br>And that with idle words of strife<br>We bring dishonour on the dead. -<br>I took a branch from off the tree,<br>And hawthorn branches drenched with dew,<br>I bound them with a sprig of yew,<br>And made a garland fair to see. -<br>I laid the flowers where He lies<br>(Warm leaves and flowers on the stones):<br>What joy I had to sit alone<br>Till evening broke on tired eyes: -<br>Till all the shifting clouds had spun<br>A robe of gold for God to wear<br>And into seas of purple air<br>Sank the bright galley of the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V -<br>Shall I be gladdened for the day,<br>And let my inner heart be stirred<br>By murmuring tree or song of bird,<br>And sorrow at the wild winds' play? -<br>Not so, such idle dreams belong<br>To souls of lesser depth than mine;<br>I feel that I am half divine;<br>I that I am great and strong. -<br>I know that every forest tree<br>By labour rises from the root<br>I know that none shall gather fruit<br>By sailing on the barren sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oscar+Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a><div class=q>
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There is no peace beneath the moon,-
Ah! in those meadows is there peace
Where, girdled with a silver fleece,
As a bright shepherd, strays the moon? -
Queen of the gardens of the sky,
Where stars like lilies, white and fair,
Shine through the ..."></div>
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