<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507757" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wind Is Without There And Howls In The Trees</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE wind is without there and howls in the trees,<br>And the rain-flurries drum on the glass:<br>Alone by the fireside with elbows on knees<br>I can number the hours as they pass.<br>Yet now, when to cheer me the crickets begin,<br>And my pipe is just happily lit,<br>Believe me, my friend, tho' the evening draws in,<br>That not all uncontested I sit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alone, did I say? O no, nowise alone<br>With the Past sitting warm on my knee,<br>To gossip of days that are over and gone,<br>But still charming to her and to me.<br>With much to be glad of and much to deplore,<br>Yet, as these days with those we compare,<br>Believe me, my friend, tho' the sorrows seem more<br>They are somehow more easy to bear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And thou, faded Future, uncertain and frail,<br>As I cherish thy light in each draught,<br>His lamp is not more to the miner - their sail<br>Is not more to the crew on the raft.<br>For Hope can make feeble ones earnest and brave,<br>And, as forth thro' the years I look on,<br>Believe me, my friend, between this and the grave,<br>I see wonderful things to be done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To do or to try; and, believe me, my friend,<br>If the call should come early for me,<br>I can leave these foundations uprooted, and tend<br>For some new city over the sea.<br>To do or to try; and if failure be mine,<br>And if Fortune go cross to my plan,<br>Believe me, my friend, tho' I mourn the design<br>I shall never lament for the man.</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=507757" data-title="The Wind Is Without There And Howls In The Trees de Robert Louis Stevenson" data-description="THE wind is without there and howls in the trees, And the rain-flurries drum on the glass: Alone by the fireside with elbows on knees I can number the hours as they pass. Yet now, when to cheer me the crickets begin, And my pipe is just happily li..."></div> </div> </div>

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