<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=498779" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Forefather</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">HERE at the country inn, <br> I lie in my quiet bed, <br>And the ardent onrush of armies <br> Throbs and throbs in my head. <br> <br>Why, in this calm, sweet place, <br> Where only silence is heard, <br>Am I ware of the crash of conflict,— <br> Is my blood to battle stirred? <br> <br>Without, the night is blessed <br> With the smell of pines, with stars;<br>Within, is the mood of slumber, <br> The healing of daytime scars. <br> <br>’T is strange,—yet I am thrall <br> To epic agonies; <br>The tumult of myriads dying <br> Is borne to me on the breeze. <br> <br>Mayhap in the long ago <br> My forefather grim and stark <br>Stood in some hell of carnage, <br> Faced forward, fell in the dark;<br> <br>And I, who have always known <br> Peace with her dove-like ways, <br>Am gripped by his martial spirit <br> Here in the after days. <br> <br>I cannot rightly tell:<br> I lie, from all stress apart, <br>And the ardent onrush of armies <br> Surges hot through my heart.</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=498779" data-title="The Forefather de Richard Francis Burton" data-description="HERE at the country inn, I lie in my quiet bed, And the ardent onrush of armies Throbs and throbs in my head. Why, in this calm, sweet place, Where only silence is heard, Am I ware of the crash of conflict,— Is my blood to battle st..."></div> </div> </div>

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