<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=473329" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Beneath a veil of milky white</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beneath a veil of milky white <br>Stands Isaac's like a hoary dovecote,<br>The crozier irritates the grey silences,<br>The heart understands the airy rite.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wandering specter of the centennial requiem,<br>The grand bearing of the shroud<br>And in a decrepit seine, the Gennesarian gloom<br>Of the Lenten Week.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Old Testament smoke on warm altars,<br>And the final, orphaned cry of the priest,<br>A regal, humble man: clean snow on his shoulders,<br>And the savage purple mantles.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The eternal cathedrals of Sofia and Peter,<br>Storehouses of air and light, the possessions<br>Of the universal granary<br>And the threshing barn of the New Testament.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The spirit is not drawn to you in sorely troubled times,<br>Here drags the wolf's track of unhappiness<br>Along the cloudy steps;<br>We will never betray it:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the slave is free, has overcome fear,<br>And preserved beyond measure<br>In the cool granaries, in deep combines,<br>Is the kernel of deep, full faith.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Osip+Emilevich+Mandelstam">Osip Emilevich Mandelstam</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=473329" data-title="Beneath a veil of milky white de Osip Emilevich Mandelstam" data-description="Beneath a veil of milky white Stands Isaac's like a hoary dovecote, The crozier irritates the grey silences, The heart understands the airy rite. The wandering specter of the centennial requiem, The grand bearing of the shroud And in a decrepit ..."></div> </div> </div>

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