<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511125" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Storm Cone</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is the midnight-let no star <br>Delude us-dawn is very far.<br>This is the tempest long foretold-<br>Slow to make head but sure to hold </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stand by! The lull 'twixt blast and blast <br>Signals the storm is near, not past;<br>And worse than present jeopardy <br>May our forlorn to-morrow be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If we have cleared the expectant reef, <br>Let no man look for his relief.<br>Only the darkness hides the shape <br>Of further peril to escape.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is decreed that we abide<br>The weight of gale against the tide <br>And those huge waves the outer main <br>Sends in to set us back again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They fall and whelm. We strain to hear <br>The pulses of her labouring gear,<br>Till the deep throb beneath us proves, <br>After each shudder and check, she moves! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She moves, with all save purpose lost,<br>To make her offing from the coast; <br>But, till she fetches open sea,<br>Let no man deem that he is free!</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=511125" data-title="The Storm Cone de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="This is the midnight-let no star Delude us-dawn is very far. This is the tempest long foretold- Slow to make head but sure to hold Stand by! The lull 'twixt blast and blast Signals the storm is near, not past; And worse than present jeopardy ..."></div> </div> </div>

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