<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=504035" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The disaster</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In multitude of eyes, <br>Away from parental views, <br>With pride given by foes, <br>Calmly, solely, she rides.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Abyss low, the fort beside, <br>Her soul wanders and slides.<br>In cold currents, the bride<br>Calculates her tides.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the parental pouch, <br>Ornaments and riches <br>Pile up as heaps to catch<br>For her a better match.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Jewels by joy designed<br>To ravish the sensuous mind’<br>Lie in vain, fully blind, <br>Gloss and glamour to end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men of her clan, afar, <br>Stand, trimming collar <br>And query, ‘Who wins her<br>Hand to be lucky ever? ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, while design and plan<br>For eventual act remain, <br>The Immanent Will gains<br>His sport for mortal pain, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With a sinister mate<br>For her- so gravely great, <br>A product of alien creed, <br>Low in breed, not in deed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As the girl mutely grew<br>In stature, grace and hue, <br>Far down below there grew<br>A lad, earning her love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alien in match they seem, <br>No one could see pair’s aim, <br>Their blend in tying arms<br>That drifts them in still stream, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or, the sign significant<br>That they are squarely bent<br>By paths coincident<br>To slip, anon, intent, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till ‘the Spinner of the Years’<br>Nodded. To the bridal cheers, <br>Chased by parents’ jeers, <br>Elopement explodes near.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Man sorts; God sports.<br>17.12.2001, pakd</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rm.+Shanmugam+Chettiar">Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar</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=504035" data-title="The disaster de Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar" data-description="In multitude of eyes, Away from parental views, With pride given by foes, Calmly, solely, she rides. Abyss low, the fort beside, Her soul wanders and slides. In cold currents, the bride Calculates her tides. In the parental pouch, Ornaments..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black