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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509176" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lotus-Flower</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the heights of the high shores gleam <br> Red and gold at the sunset hour: <br>There comes the spell of a magic dream, <br> And the Harbour seems a lotus-flower; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A blue flower tinted at dawn with gold, <br> A broad flower blazing with light at noon, <br>A flower forever with charms to hold <br> His heart, who sees it by sun or moon. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Its beauty burns like a ceaseless fire, <br> And tower looks over the top of tower; <br>For all mute things it would seem, aspire <br> To catch a glimpse of the lotus-flower. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men meet its beauty with furrowed face, <br> And straight the furrows are smoothed away; <br>They buy and sell in the market-place, <br> And languor leadens their blood all day. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">At night they look on the flower, and lo! <br> The City passes with all its cares: <br>They dream no more in its azure glow, <br> Of gold and silver and stocks and shares. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Lotus dreams 'neath the dreaming skies, <br> Its beauty touching with spell divine <br>The grey old town, till the old town lies <br> Like one half-drunk with a magic wine. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Star-loved, it breathes at the midnight hour <br> A sense of peace from its velvet mouth. <br>Though flowers be fair -- is there any flower <br> Like this blue flower of the radiant South? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sun-loved and lit by the moon it yields <br> A challenge-glory or glow serene, <br>And men bethink them of jewelled shields, <br> A turquoise lighting a ground of green. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fond lovers pacing beside it see <br> Not death and darkness, but life and light, <br>And dream no dream of the witchery <br> The Lotus sheds on the silent night. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pale watchers weary of watching stars <br> That fall, and fall, and forever fall, <br>Tear-worn and troubled with many scars, <br> They seek the Lotus and end life's thrall. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The spirit spelled by the Lotus swoons, <br> Its beauty summons the artist mood; <br>And thus, perchance, in a thousand moons <br> Its spell shall work in our waiting blood. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then souls shall shine with an old-time grace, <br> And sense be wrapped in a golden trance, <br>And art be crowned in the market-place <br> With Love and Beauty and fair Romance.</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=509176" data-title="The Lotus-Flower de Roderic Quinn" data-description="All the heights of the high shores gleam Red and gold at the sunset hour: There comes the spell of a magic dream, And the Harbour seems a lotus-flower; A blue flower tinted at dawn with gold, &..."></div> </div> </div>
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