<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477617" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballade</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">By Mystic's banks I held my dream.<br>(I held my fishing rod as well,)<br>The vision was of dace and bream,<br>A fruitless vision, sooth to tell.<br>But round about the sylvan dell<br>Were other sweet Arcadian shrines,<br>Gone now, is all the rural spell,<br>Arcadia has trolley lines.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, once loved, sluggish, darkling stream,<br>For me no more, thy waters swell,<br>Thy music now the engines' scream,<br>Thy fragrance now the factory's smell;<br>Too near for me the clanging bell;<br>A false light in the water shines<br>While Solitude lists to her knell,--<br>Arcadia has trolley lines.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy wooded lanes with shade and gleam<br>Where bloomed the fragrant asphodel,<br>Now bleak commercially teem<br>With signs 'To Let,' 'To Buy,' 'To Sell.'<br>And Commerce holds them fierce and fell;<br>With vulgar sport she now combines<br>Sweet Nature's piping voice to quell.<br>Arcadia has trolley lines.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</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=477617" data-title="Ballade de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="By Mystic's banks I held my dream. (I held my fishing rod as well,) The vision was of dace and bream, A fruitless vision, sooth to tell. But round about the sylvan dell Were other sweet Arcadian shrines, Gone now, is all the rural spell, Arcadia h..."></div> </div> </div>

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