<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509459" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ruined Homestead</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">White birds, frightened from silver grass,<br>whose blood-rose breasts and wings are thrown<br>like petals settling down the pass,<br>flower the ruined homestead’s stone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rise from the fallen walls and scream,<br>crested, from the stark dead gum;<br>shatter the crystal of the morning’s dream<br>where I, across your landscape, come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Roofless, the broken stonework frames<br>red arid hills, a valley where<br>the ghost-gums writhe like whitened flames<br>and desert-oaks droop their dark hair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when, in the crucible of the hills<br>the molten day has died, there stands<br>under the blaze of stars that fills<br>its night, a house not made with hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Roland+Robinson">Roland Robinson</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=509459" data-title="The Ruined Homestead de Roland Robinson" data-description="White birds, frightened from silver grass, whose blood-rose breasts and wings are thrown like petals settling down the pass, flower the ruined homestead’s stone. Rise from the fallen walls and scream, crested, from the stark dead gum; shatter t..."></div> </div> </div>

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