<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509943" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Autumn Evening At Murray Bay</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Darkly falls the autumn twilight, rustles by the crisp leaf sere,<br>Sadly wail the lonely night-winds, sweeping sea-ward, chill and drear,<br>Sullen dash the restless waters ’gainst a bleak and rock-bound shore,<br>While the sea-birds’ weird voices mingle with their surging roar. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Vainly seeks the eye a flow’ret ’mid the desolation drear,<br>Or a spray of pleasant verdure which the gloomy scene might cheer;<br>Nought but frowning crags and boulders, and long sea-weeds, ghastly, dank,<br>With the mosses and pale lichens, to the wet rocks clinging rank. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">See, the fog clouds thickly rolling o’er the landscape far and wide,<br>Till the tall cliffs look like phantoms, seeking ’mid their shrouds to hide;<br>On they come, the misty masses of the wreathing vapour white,<br>Filling hill and mead and valley, blotting earth and heaven from sight. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Silent, mournful, am I standing, gazing from the window pane,<br>Dimmed and blurred with heavy plashes of the fast descending rain,<br>While thoughts chiming with the hour my weary brain are passing through,<br>Till the shadows of the evening on my brow are mirrored too. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rise, although uncalled, within me, memories of the distant past,<br>Of the dreams, the hopes, the fancies, that round life sweet sunshine cast;<br>Whilst the moan of winds and waters, with a strange, mysterious art,<br>Seem to awaken drear forebodings in the listening gazer’s heart. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! it needs yon pleasant tapers with enlivening, home-like ray,<br>And the sound of voices sharing, each in turn, in converse gay,<br>And the flash of fire-light, making happy faces still more glad,<br>To dispel the mournful thoughts that make the evening hour so sad. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Turning from this lonely musing, wilful nursing of dark care,<br>I will join the joyous circle of the dear ones gathered there,<br>Who with smiles will greet my advent, and in that delightful room<br>Shake aside the dreary shadows of this scene of autumn gloom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rosanna+Eleanor+Leprohon">Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon</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=509943" data-title="An Autumn Evening At Murray Bay de Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon" data-description="Darkly falls the autumn twilight, rustles by the crisp leaf sere, Sadly wail the lonely night-winds, sweeping sea-ward, chill and drear, Sullen dash the restless waters ’gainst a bleak and rock-bound shore, While the sea-birds’ weird voices mi..."></div> </div> </div>

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