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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518829" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nirvana</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through seas of dreams and seas of phantasies,<br>Through seas of solitudes and vacancies,<br>And through my Self, the deepest of the seas,<br> I strive to thee, Nirvana.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh long ago the billow-flow of sense,<br>Aroused by passion's windy vehemence,<br>Upbore me out of depths to heights intense,<br> But not to thee, Nirvana.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By waves swept on, I learned to ride the waves.<br>I served my masters till I made them slaves.<br>I baffled Death by hiding in his graves,<br> His watery graves, Nirvana.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And once I clomb a mountain's stony crown<br>And stood, and smiled no smile and frowned no frown,<br>Nor ate, nor drank, nor slept, nor faltered down,<br> Five days and nights, Nirvana.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sunrise and noon and sunset and strange night<br>And shadow of large clouds and faint starlight<br>And lonesome Terror stalking round the height,<br> I minded not, Nirvana.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The silence ground my soul keen like a spear.<br>My bare thought, whetted as a sword, cut sheer<br>Through time and life and flesh and death, to clear<br> My way unto Nirvana.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I slew gross bodies of old ethnic hates<br>That stirred long race-wars betwixt States and States.<br>I stood and scorned these foolish dead debates,<br> Calmly, calmly, Nirvana.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I smote away the filmy base of Caste.<br>I thrust through antique blood and riches vast,<br>And all big claims of the pretentious Past<br> That hindered my Nirvana.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then all fair types, of form and sound and hue,<br>Up-floated round my sense and charmed anew.<br>-- I waved them back into the void blue:<br> I love them not, Nirvana.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And all outrageous ugliness of time,<br>Excess and Blasphemy and squinting Crime<br>Beset me, but I kept my calm sublime:<br> I hate them not, Nirvana.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">High on the topmost thrilling of the surge<br>I saw, afar, two hosts to battle urge.<br>The widows of the victors sang a dirge,<br> But I wept not, Nirvana.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw two lovers sitting on a star.<br>He kissed her lip, she kissed his battle-scar.<br>They quarrelled soon, and went two ways, afar.<br> O Life! I laughed, Nirvana.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And never a king but had some king above,<br>And never a law to right the wrongs of Love,<br>And ever a fanged snake beneath a dove,<br> Saw I on earth, Nirvana.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I, with kingship over kings, am free.<br>I love not, hate not: right and wrong agree:<br>And fangs of snakes and lures of doves to me<br> Are vain, are vain, Nirvana.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So by mine inner contemplation long,<br>By thoughts that need no speech nor oath nor song,<br>My spirit soars above the motley throng<br> Of days and nights, Nirvana.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Suns, O Rains, O Day and Night, O Chance,<br>O Time besprent with seven-hued circumstance,<br>I float above ye all into the trance<br> That draws me nigh Nirvana.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gods of small worlds, ye little Deities<br>Of humble Heavens under my large skies,<br>And Governor-Spirits, all, I rise, I rise,<br> I rise into Nirvana.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The storms of Self below me rage and die.<br>On the still bosom of mine ecstasy,<br>A lotus on a lake of balm, I lie<br> Forever in Nirvana.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sidney+Lanier">Sidney Lanier</a><div class=q>
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Through seas of solitudes and vacancies,
And through my Self, the deepest of the seas,
 I strive to thee, Nirvana.

Oh long ago the billow-flow of sense,
Aroused by passion's windy vehemence,
Upbore m..."></div>
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