<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507776" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To N. V. De G. S.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE UNFATHOMABLE sea, and time, and tears, <br>The deeds of heroes and the crimes of kings <br>Dispart us; and the river of events <br>Has, for an age of years, to east and west <br>More widely borne our cradles. Thou to me <br>Art foreign, as when seamen at the dawn <br>Descry a land far off and know not which. <br>So I approach uncertain; so I cruise <br>Round thy mysterious islet, and behold <br>Surf and great mountains and loud river-bars, <br>And from the shore hear inland voices call. <br>Strange is the seaman’s heart; he hopes, he fears; <br>Draws closer and sweeps wider from that coast; <br>Last, his rent sail refits, and to the deep <br>His shattered prow uncomforted puts back. <br>Yet as he goes he ponders at the helm <br>Of that bright island; where he feared to touch, <br>His spirit readventures; and for years, <br>Where by his wife he slumbers safe at home, <br>Thoughts of that land revisit him; he sees <br>The eternal mountains beckon, and awakes <br>Yearning for that far home that might have been.</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=507776" data-title="To N. V. De G. S. de Robert Louis Stevenson" data-description="THE UNFATHOMABLE sea, and time, and tears, The deeds of heroes and the crimes of kings Dispart us; and the river of events Has, for an age of years, to east and west More widely borne our cradles. Thou to me Art foreign, as when seamen at the..."></div> </div> </div>

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