<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476356" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tulips</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">An age being mathematical, these flowers <br>Of linear stalks and spheroid blooms were prized <br>By men with wakened, speculative minds, <br>And when with mathematics they explored <br>The Macrocosm, and came at last to <br>The Vital Spirit of the World, and named it <br>Invisible Pure Fire, or, say, the Light, <br>The Tulips were the Light's receptacles. <br>The gold, the bronze, the red, the bright-swart Tulips! <br>No emblems they for us who no more dream <br>Of mathematics burgeoning to light <br>With Newton's prism and Spinoza's lens, <br>Or berkeley's ultimate, Invisible Pure Fire. <br>In colored state and carven brilliancy <br>We see them now, or, more illumined, <br>In sudden fieriness, as flowers fit <br>To go with vestments red on Pentecost.</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=476356" data-title="Tulips de Padraic Colum" data-description="An age being mathematical, these flowers Of linear stalks and spheroid blooms were prized By men with wakened, speculative minds, And when with mathematics they explored The Macrocosm, and came at last to The Vital Spirit of the World, and na..."></div> </div> </div>

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