<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509131" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Australia's Vision</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ALL still! and, high above, the sun<br>In cloudless, golden reign —<br>A mirage in the quivering west —<br>A horseman on the plain!<br>Silent, with hand above his eyes,<br>With thoughts undreamed, unguessed,<br>Like some bronze shape immovable,<br>He gazes down the west.<br>High overhead an eagle soars<br>On proud, wide-spreading wings;<br>Crouching, they watch with stricken eyes —<br>The furred and feathered things.<br>No song, no sound! but arching skies<br>With not a cloud to mar;<br>O horseman, gazing down the west,<br>What seest thou afar?<br>Is you a mirage dream, indeed,<br>Heat-born, shape-thronged, sublime?<br>Or but a mirror of the things<br>That thou shalt know in time?<br>What comes and goes in yonder haze?<br>What moving things are these?<br>Are they the masts of battleships,<br>Or are they phantom trees?<br>Speak thou, whose eyes are eagle-keen,<br>Nor dimmed with old regrets;<br>Are yonder shapes but spectral reeds,<br>Or are they bayonets?<br>Look well into the Vision's heart,<br>O horseman on the plain!<br>Trust nought except thine own true eyes —<br>For thine the loss or gain.</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=509131" data-title="Australia's Vision de Roderic Quinn" data-description="ALL still! and, high above, the sun In cloudless, golden reign — A mirage in the quivering west — A horseman on the plain! Silent, with hand above his eyes, With thoughts undreamed, unguessed, Like some bronze shape immovable, He gazes down th..."></div> </div> </div>

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