<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Spoils Of The Dead</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two fairies it was <br>On a still summer day <br>Came forth in the woods <br>With the flowers to play. <br>The flowers they plucked <br>They cast on the ground <br>For others, and those <br>For still others they found. <br>Flower-guided it was <br>That they came as they ran <br>On something that lay <br>In the shape of a man. <br>The snow must have made <br>The feathery bed <br>When this one fell <br>On the sleep of the dead. <br>But the snow was gone <br>A long time ago, <br>And the body he wore <br>Nigh gone with the snow. <br>The fairies drew near <br>And keenly espied <br>A ring on his hand <br>And a chain at his side. <br>They knelt in the leaves <br>And eerily played <br>With the glittering things, <br>And were not afraid. <br>And when they went home <br>To hide in their burrow, <br>They took them along <br>To play with to-morrow. <br>When you came on death, <br>Did you not come flower-guided <br>Like the elves in the wood? <br>I remember that I did. <br>But I recognised death <br>With sorrow and dread, <br>And I hated and hate <br>The spoils of the dead.</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=506877" data-title="Spoils Of The Dead de Robert Frost" data-description="Two fairies it was On a still summer day Came forth in the woods With the flowers to play. The flowers they plucked They cast on the ground For others, and those For still others they found. Flower-guided it was That they came as they ran..."></div> </div> </div>

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