<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506800" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Brook In The City</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The farmhouse lingers, though averse to square<br>With the new city street it has to wear<br>A number in. But what about the brook<br>That held the house as in an elbow-crook?<br>I ask as one who knew the brook, its strength<br>And impulse, having dipped a finger length<br>And made it leap my knuckle, having tossed<br>A flower to try its currents where they crossed.<br>The meadow grass could be cemented down<br>From growing under pavements of a town;<br>The apple trees be sent to hearth-stone flame.<br>Is water wood to serve a brook the same?<br>How else dispose of an immortal force<br>No longer needed? Staunch it at its source<br>With cinder loads dumped down? The brook was thrown<br>Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone<br>In fetid darkness still to live and run --<br>And all for nothing it had ever done<br>Except forget to go in fear perhaps.<br>No one would know except for ancient maps<br>That such a brook ran water. But I wonder<br>If from its being kept forever under,<br>The thoughts may not have risen that so keep<br>This new-built city from both work and sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Frost">Robert Frost</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=506800" data-title="A Brook In The City de Robert Frost" data-description="The farmhouse lingers, though averse to square With the new city street it has to wear A number in. But what about the brook That held the house as in an elbow-crook? I ask as one who knew the brook, its strength And impulse, having dipped a finge..."></div> </div> </div>

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