<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510979" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Flight</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the grey geese heard the Fool's tread<br>Too near to where they lay,<br>They lifted neither voice nor head,<br>But took themselves away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No water broke, no pinion whirred-<br>There went no warning call.<br>The steely, sheltering rushes stirred<br>A little--that was all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only the osiers understood,<br>And the drowned meadows spied<br>What else than wreckage of a flood<br>Stole outward on that tide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the far beaches saw their ranks<br>Gather and greet and grow<br>By myriads on the naked banks<br>Watching their sign to go;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till, with a roar of wings that churned<br>The shivering shoals to foam,<br>Flight after flight took air and turned -<br>To find a safer home;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And far below their steadfast wedge,<br>They heard (and hastened on)<br>Men thresh and clamour through the sedge<br>Aghast that they were gone!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, when men prayed them come anew <br>And nest where they were bred,<br>&quot;Nay, fools foretell what knaves will do,&quot;<br>Was all the grey geese said.</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=510979" data-title="The Flight de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="When the grey geese heard the Fool's tread Too near to where they lay, They lifted neither voice nor head, But took themselves away. No water broke, no pinion whirred- There went no warning call. The steely, sheltering rushes stirred A little--th..."></div> </div> </div>

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