<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476346" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Poet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'THE blackbird's in the briar,<br>The seagull's on the ground-<br>They are nests, and they're more than nests,' he said,<br>'They are tokens I have found.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There, where the rain-dashed briar<br>Marks an empty glade,<br>The blackbird's nest is seen,' he said,<br>'Clay-rimmed, uncunningly made.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By shore of the inland lake,<br>Where surgeless water shoves,<br>The seagulls have their nests,' he said,<br>'As low as catties' hooves.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I heard a poet say it,<br>The sojourner of a night;<br>His head was up to the rafter,<br>Where he stood in candles' light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Your houses are like the seagulls'<br>Nests they are scattered and low;<br>Like the blackbirds' nests in briars,' he said,<br>'Uncunningly made even so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But close to the ground are reared<br>The wings that have widest sway,<br>And the birds that sing best in the wood,' he said,<br>'Were reared with breasts to the clay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You've wildness I've turned it to song;<br>You've strength I've turned it to wings;<br>The welkin's for your conquest then,<br>The wood to your music rings.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I heard a poet say it,<br>The sojourner of a night;<br>His head was up to the rafter,<br>Where he stood in candles' light.</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=476346" data-title="The Poet de Padraic Colum" data-description="'THE blackbird's in the briar, The seagull's on the ground- They are nests, and they're more than nests,' he said, 'They are tokens I have found. There, where the rain-dashed briar Marks an empty glade, The blackbird's nest is seen,' he said, 'Cl..."></div> </div> </div>

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