<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509127" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At Dawn</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE night-long clamour of winds grew still;<br>The forest rested, its foes withdrawn;<br>On sounding ocean and silent hill<br>There crept a sense of the coming dawn.<br>A bird awoke on a leaning limb<br>And fluttered its plumes a moment's space;<br>Dark purple lay on the sea's far rim:<br>The sky grew pale as a dying face.<br>Then all the trees and the rocks and heights<br>With wondering faces watched the East:<br>It seemed an altar hung with lights<br>And waiting for a vestured priest.<br>And in that intimate first hour<br>When land and sea rejoiced as one,<br>And Nature, like an opening flower,<br>Gave incense, came the burning sun.<br>Yet, while the hour of gold went by,<br>I saw through all its pageantry<br>The vast indifference of the sky,<br>The heartless beauty of the sea.<br>For wet and wan, and cold and sped<br>Beyond the breakers' reach of pearl,<br>There lay a strong man drowned and dead,<br>And in his arms a drowned white girl.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Roderic+Quinn">Roderic Quinn</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=509127" data-title="At Dawn de Roderic Quinn" data-description="THE night-long clamour of winds grew still; The forest rested, its foes withdrawn; On sounding ocean and silent hill There crept a sense of the coming dawn. A bird awoke on a leaning limb And fluttered its plumes a moment's space; Dark purple lay ..."></div> </div> </div>

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