<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507128" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nebuchadnezzar's Fall</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Frowning over the riddle that Daniel told,<br>Down through the mist hung garden, below a feeble sun,<br>The King of Persia walked: oh, the chilling cold!<br>His mind was webbed with a grey shroud vapour-spun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here for the pride of his soaring eagle heart,<br>Here for his great hand searching the skies for food,<br>Here for his courtship of Heaven's high stars he shall smart,<br>Nebuchadnezzar shall fall, crawl, be subdued.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hot sun struck through the vapour, leaf strewn mould<br>Breathed sweet decay: old Earth called for her child.<br>Mist drew off from his mind, Sun scattered gold,<br>Warmth came and earthy motives fresh and wild.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Down on his knees he sinks, the stiff-necked King,<br>Stoops and kneels and grovels, chin to the mud.<br>Out from his changed heart flutter on startled wing<br>The fancy birds of his Pride, Honour, Kinglihood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He crawls, he grunts, he is beast-like, frogs and snails<br>His diet, and grass, and water with hand for cup.<br>He herds with brutes that have hooves and horns and tails,<br>He roars in his anger, he scratches, he looks not up.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Graves">Robert Graves</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=507128" data-title="Nebuchadnezzar's Fall de Robert Graves" data-description="Frowning over the riddle that Daniel told, Down through the mist hung garden, below a feeble sun, The King of Persia walked: oh, the chilling cold! His mind was webbed with a grey shroud vapour-spun. Here for the pride of his soaring eagle heart,..."></div> </div> </div>

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