<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510977" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Fires</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men make them fires on the hearth<br>Each under his roof-tree,<br>And the Four Winds that rule the earth<br>They blow the smoke to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Across the high hills and the sea<br>And all the changeful skies,<br>The Four Winds blow the smoke to me<br>Till the tears are in my eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Until the tears are in my eyes.<br>And my heart is wellnigh broke<br>For thinking on old memories<br>That gather in the smoke.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With every shift of every wind<br>The homesick memories come,<br>From every quarter of mankind<br>Where I have made me a home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Four times a fire against the cold<br>And a roof against the rain --<br>Sorrow fourfold and joy fourfold<br>The Four Winds bring again!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How can I answer which is best<br>Of all the fires that burn?<br>I have been too often host or guest<br>At every fire in turn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How can I turn from any fire,<br>On any man's hearthstone?<br>I know the wonder and desire<br>That went to build my own!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How can I doubt man's joy or woe<br>Where'er his house-fires shine.<br>Since all that man must undergo<br>Will visit me at mine?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, you Four Winds that blow so strong<br>And know that his is true,<br>Stoop for a little and carry my song<br>To all the men I knew!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where there are fires against the cold,<br>Or roofs against the rain --<br>With love fourfold and joy fourfold,<br>Take them my songs again!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</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=510977" data-title="The Fires de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="Men make them fires on the hearth Each under his roof-tree, And the Four Winds that rule the earth They blow the smoke to me. Across the high hills and the sea And all the changeful skies, The Four Winds blow the smoke to me Till the tears are in..."></div> </div> </div>

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