<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=499112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Fire-Truck</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Right down the shocked street with a<br> siren-blast<br>That sends all else skittering to the<br> curb,<br>Redness, brass, ladders and hats hurl<br> past,<br> Blurring to sheer verb,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shift at the corner into uproarious gear<br>And make it around the turn in a squall<br> of traction,<br>The headlong bell maintaining sure and<br> clear,<br> Thought is degraded action!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beautiful, heavy, unweary, loud,<br> obvious thing!<br>I stand here purged of nuance, my<br> mind a blank.<br>All I was brooding upon has taken<br> wing,<br> And I have you to thank.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As you howl beyond hearing I carry you<br> into my mind,<br>Ladders and brass and all, there to<br> admire<br>Your phoenix-red simplicity, enshrined<br> In that not extinguished fire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Submitted by Robert Fish</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Richard+Wilbur">Richard Wilbur</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=499112" data-title="A Fire-Truck de Richard Wilbur" data-description="Right down the shocked street with a siren-blast That sends all else skittering to the curb, Redness, brass, ladders and hats hurl past, Blurring to sheer verb, Shift at the corner into uproarious gear And make it around the turn in a..."></div> </div> </div>

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