<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506574" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Barbarians.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As the crinoid star-fish to the sea-base<br>By his stem fixed draws bare subsistence in<br>His straitened sphere, as in the sunless ooze<br>He turns on his long jointed pedicle,<br>So are half-bruted men, barbarian-brained,<br>Endued with scarce more power to see and hear<br>The visions and the rumours of the world,<br>So poorly apt to think and feel and know,<br>As each turns on his dark time-pivot in<br>A universal ignorance, as it were<br>Far back in the beginning of the world;<br>Disjointed and dismembered in the mind,<br>And in the spirit so confused and foul,<br>With no sign of truth's authenticity,<br>As nature in their origin had jarred<br>The primal tone of man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Crawford">Robert Crawford</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=506574" data-title="Barbarians. de Robert Crawford" data-description="As the crinoid star-fish to the sea-base By his stem fixed draws bare subsistence in His straitened sphere, as in the sunless ooze He turns on his long jointed pedicle, So are half-bruted men, barbarian-brained, Endued with scarce more power to se..."></div> </div> </div>

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