<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=473375" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tortoise</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the stony spurs of Pierius <br>The Muses conducted the first round dance<br>So like bees, blind lyrists might give us Ionic honey.<br>A great chill blew<br>From the prominent virginal brow<br>So the tender graves of the Archipelago<br>Might be uncovered for distant grandsons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>2</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spring rushes to trample the meadows of Hellas,<br>Sappho puts on a dappled boot,<br>Cicadas click like hammers forging out a ring,<br>As in the little song.<br>A stout carpenter built a tall house,<br>They strangled all the hens for a wedding,<br>An inept cobbler stretched<br>All five ox-hides for shoes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>3</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sluggish lyre-tortoise<br>Toeless barely creeps along,<br>Sets herself down in the sun of Epirus,<br>Quietly warming her golden belly.<br>Who will caress someone like her,<br>Who will turn her over while she sleeps --<br>She awaits Terpander in her dream,<br>Sensing the sudden sweep of dry fingers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>4</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A cold sprinkle waters the oaks,<br>The bareheaded grasses murmur,<br>The honeysuckle smells, to the joy of the bees.<br>O where are you, sacred islands,<br>Where they do not eat broken bread,<br>Where there is only wine, milk and honey,<br>Creaking toil does not darken the sky, and<br>The wheel turns easily?</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=473375" data-title="Tortoise de Osip Emilevich Mandelstam" data-description="On the stony spurs of Pierius The Muses conducted the first round dance So like bees, blind lyrists might give us Ionic honey. A great chill blew From the prominent virginal brow So the tender graves of the Archipelago Might be uncovered for dist..."></div> </div> </div>

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