<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508101" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Holly-Tree</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O reader! hast thou ever stood to see<br>The Holly-tree?<br>The eye that contemplates it well perceives<br>Its glossy leaves<br>Ordered by an Intelligence so wise<br>As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen,<br>Wrinkled and keen;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No grazing cattle, through their prickly round,<br>Can reach to wound;<br>But, as they grow where nothing is to fear,<br>Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I love to view these things with curious eyes,<br>And moralize;<br>And in this wisdom of the Holly-tree<br>Can emblem see<br>Wherewith, perchance, to make a pleasant rhyme, -<br>One which may profit in the after-time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus, though abroad, perchance, I might appear<br>Harsh and austere;<br>To those who on my leisure would intrude,<br>Reserved and rude;<br>Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be,<br>Like the high leaves upon the Holly-tree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And should my youth - as youth is apt, I know, -<br>Some harshness show,<br>All vain asperities I, day by day,<br>Would wear away,<br>Till the smooth temper of my age should be<br>Like the high leaves upon the Holly-tree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as, when all the summer trees are seen<br>So bright and green,<br>The Holly-leaves their fadeless hues display<br>Less bright than they;<br>But when the bare and wintry woods we see,<br>What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree? -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, serious should my youth appear among<br>The thoughtless throng;<br>So would I seem, amid the young and gay,<br>More grave than they;<br>That in my age as cheerful I might be<br>As the green winter of the Holly-tree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Southey">Robert Southey</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=508101" data-title="The Holly-Tree de Robert Southey" data-description="O reader! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen, Wrin..."></div> </div> </div>

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