<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=498773" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Black Sheep</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">FROM their folded mates they wander far, <br> Their ways seem harsh and wild: <br>They follow the beck of a baleful star, <br> Their paths are dream-beguiled. <br> <br>Yet haply they sought but a wider range, <br> Some loftier mountain slope, <br>And little recked of the country strange <br> Beyond the gates of hope. <br> <br>And haply a bell with a luring call <br> Summoned their feet to tread <br>Midst the cruel rocks, where the deep pitfall <br> And the lurking snare are spread. <br> <br>Maybe, in spite of their tameless days <br> Of outcast liberty, <br>They ’re sick at heart for the homely ways <br> Where their gathered brothers be. <br> <br>And oft at night, when the plains fall dark <br> And the hills loom large and dim, <br>For the shepherd’s voice they mutely hark, <br> And their souls go out to him.<br> <br>Meanwhile, “Black sheep! black sheep!” we cry, <br> Safe in the inner fold; <br>And maybe they hear, and wonder why, <br> And marvel, out in the cold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Richard+Francis+Burton">Richard Francis Burton</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=498773" data-title="Black Sheep de Richard Francis Burton" data-description="FROM their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild: They follow the beck of a baleful star, Their paths are dream-beguiled. Yet haply they sought but a wider range, Some loftier mountain slope, And little recked of ..."></div> </div> </div>

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