<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476342" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Knitters</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">IN companies or lone<br>They bend their heads, their hands<br>They busy with their gear,<br>Accomplishing the stitch<br>That turns the stocking-heel,<br>Or closes up the toe,<br>These knitters at their doors.<br>Their talk 's of nothing else<br>But what was told before<br>Sundown and gone sundown,<br>While goats bleat from the hill,<br>And men are tramping home,<br>By knitters at their doors.<br>And we who go this way<br>A benediction take<br>From hands that ply this task<br>For the ten thousandth time<br>Of knitters at their doors.<br>Since we who deem our days<br>Most varied, come to own<br>That all the works we do<br>Repeat a wonted toil:<br>May it be done as theirs<br>Who turn the stocking-heel,<br>And close the stocking-toe,<br>With grace and in content,<br>These knitters at their doors.<br>The Charm<br>Uisge cloiche gan irraidh</div><div style="margin:10px 0">WATER, I did not seek you,<br>Water of hollow stone;<br>I crossed no one's acre to find you<br>You were where my geese lie down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I dip my fingers and sprinkle,<br>While three times over I say,<br>'Chance-bound and chance-found water<br>Can take a numbness away.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The numbness that leaves me vacant<br>Of thought and will and deed<br>Like the moveless clock that I gaze on-<br>It will go where the ravens breed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I empty the stone; on the morrow<br>I shall rise with spirit alive;<br>Gallant amongst the gallant,<br>I shall speak and lead and strive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In search there is no warrant,<br>By chance is the charm shown:<br>Water, I did not seek you,<br>Water of hollow stone!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Padraic+Colum">Padraic Colum</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=476342" data-title="The Knitters de Padraic Colum" data-description="IN companies or lone They bend their heads, their hands They busy with their gear, Accomplishing the stitch That turns the stocking-heel, Or closes up the toe, These knitters at their doors. Their talk 's of nothing else But what was told before S..."></div> </div> </div>

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