<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509914" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Village</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Scarcely a street, too few houses<br>To merit the title; just a way between<br>The one tavern and the one shop<br>That leads nowhere and fails at the top<br>Of the short hill, eaten away<br>By long erosion of the green tide<br>Of grass creeping perpetually nearer <br>This last outpost of time past.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So little happens; the black dog<br>Cracking his fleas in the hot sun<br>Is history. Yet the girl who crosses<br>From door to door moves to a scale<br>Beyond the bland day's two dimensions.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stay, then, village, for round you spins<br>On a slow axis a world as vast<br>And meaningful as any posed<br>By great Plato's solitary mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Submitted by Andrew Mayers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ronald+Stuart+Thomas">Ronald Stuart Thomas</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=509914" data-title="The Village de Ronald Stuart Thomas" data-description="Scarcely a street, too few houses To merit the title; just a way between The one tavern and the one shop That leads nowhere and fails at the top Of the short hill, eaten away By long erosion of the green tide Of grass creeping perpetually nearer ..."></div> </div> </div>

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