<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=481209" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Elementary Scene</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Looking back in my mind I can see <br>The white sun like a tin plate <br>Over the wooden turning of the weeds; <br>The street jerking --a wet swing-- <br>To end by the wall the children sang. <br> <br>The thin grass by the girls' door, <br>Trodden on, straggling, yellow and rotten, <br>And the gaunt field with its one tied cow-- <br>The dead land waking sadly to my life-- <br>Stir, and curl deeper in the eyes of time. <br> <br>The rotting pumpkin under the stairs <br>Bundled with switches and the cold ashes <br>Still holds for me, in its unwavering eyes, <br>The stinking shapes of cranes and witches, <br>Their path slanting down the pumpkin's sky. <br> <br>Its stars beckon through the frost like cottages <br>(Homes of the Bear, the Hunter--of that absent star, <br>The dark where the flushed child struggles into sleep) <br>Till, leaning a lifetime to the comforter, <br>I float above the small limbs like their dream: <br> <br>I, I, the future that mends everything.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Randall+Jarrell">Randall Jarrell</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=481209" data-title="The Elementary Scene de Randall Jarrell" data-description="Looking back in my mind I can see The white sun like a tin plate Over the wooden turning of the weeds; The street jerking --a wet swing-- To end by the wall the children sang. The thin grass by the girls' door, Trodden on, straggling, yell..."></div> </div> </div>

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