<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511190" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>With Drake in the Tropics</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">South and far south below the Line,<br> Our Admiral leads us on,<br>Above, undreamed-of planets shine--<br> The stars we know are gone.<br>Around, our clustered seamen mark<br> The silent deep ablaze<br>With fires, through which the far-down shark<br> Shoots glimmering on his ways.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sultry tropic breezes fail<br> That plagued us all day through;<br>Like molten silver hangs our sail,<br> Our decks are dark with dew.<br>Now the rank moon commands the sky.<br> Ho! Bid the watch beware<br>And rouse all sleeping men that lie<br> Unsheltered in her glare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How long the time 'twixt bell and bell!<br> How still our lanthorns burn!<br>How strange our whispered words that tell<br> Of England and return!<br>Old towns, old streets, old friends, old loves,<br> We name them each to each,<br>While the lit face of Heaven removes<br> Them farther from our reach.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now is the utmost ebb of night<br> When mind and body sink,<br>And loneliness and gathering fright<br> O'erwhelm us, if we think--<br>Yet, look, where in his room apart, <br> All windows opened wide, <br>Our Admiral thrusts away the chart<br> And comes to walk outside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kindly, from man to man he goes,<br> With comfort, praise, or jest,<br>Quick to suspect our childish woes,<br> Our terror and unrest.<br>It is as though the sun should shine--<br> Our midnight fears are gone!<br>South and far south below the Line,<br> Our Admiral leads us on!</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=511190" data-title="With Drake in the Tropics de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="South and far south below the Line, Our Admiral leads us on, Above, undreamed-of planets shine-- The stars we know are gone. Around, our clustered seamen mark The silent deep ablaze With fires, through which the far-down shark Shoots glimmerin..."></div> </div> </div>

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