<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476762" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Midnight Canto</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Young, you weep the falling moon, <br>Luminous willow, beside the black river<br>Where I drown in your pale ghost, <br>Each small wave, the eyelid<br>Of a scattered rose, silvered by the light. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are everything that time could steal<br>From me, brought back, an afterlife<br>I had not thought possible, a birth<br>Beyond the debt I owe to anyone, <br>These hauntings, these crucial exorcisms. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In me, wheat, honey, white gold, <br>Your sad summer made mystery<br>By night, in me, when perfect solitude<br>Paints your face upon its raven waters<br>And the watching stars discuss conspiracies</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of love that terrify the sleepless hour. <br>Servant of the dream that spins the world <br>Through the languishing ages into yesterday, <br>I am resurrected like the wind to comb<br>Your hair, and play upon your cheek, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A memory of fire, to let you know, <br>Though alone, I am near and now, <br>The music of your shining leaves, <br>Companion, sage, fool, or poet, <br>The soft, mad music of your shining leaves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Patrick+White">Patrick White</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=476762" data-title="Midnight Canto de Patrick White" data-description="Young, you weep the falling moon, Luminous willow, beside the black river Where I drown in your pale ghost, Each small wave, the eyelid Of a scattered rose, silvered by the light. You are everything that time could steal From me, brought back,..."></div> </div> </div>

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