<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507734" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dumb Soldier</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the grass was closely mown,<br>Walking on the lawn alone,<br>In the turf a hole I found<br>And hid a soldier underground. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spring and daisies came apace;<br>Grasses hid my hiding-place;<br>Grasses run like a green sea<br>O'er the lawn up to my knee. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Under grass alone he lies,<br>Looking up with leaden eyes,<br>Scarlet coat and pointed gun,<br>To the stars and to the sun. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the grass is ripe like grain,<br>When the scythe is stoned again,<br>When the lawn is shaven clear,<br>Then my hole shall reappear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I shall find him, never fear,<br>I shall find my grenadier;<br>But, for all that's gone and come,<br>I shall find my soldier dumb. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He has lived, a little thing,<br>In the grassy woods of spring;<br>Done, if he could tell me true,<br>Just as I should like to do. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He has seen the starry hours<br>And the springing of the flowers;<br>And the fairy things that pass<br>In the forests of the grass. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the silence he has heard<br>Talking bee and ladybird,<br>And the butterfly has flown<br>O'er him as he lay alone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not a word will he disclose,<br>Not a word of all he knows.<br>I must lay him on the shelf,<br>And make up the tale myself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Louis+Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</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=507734" data-title="The Dumb Soldier de Robert Louis Stevenson" data-description="When the grass was closely mown, Walking on the lawn alone, In the turf a hole I found And hid a soldier underground. Spring and daisies came apace; Grasses hid my hiding-place; Grasses run like a green sea O'er the lawn up to my knee. Under g..."></div> </div> </div>

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