<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Solar Eclipse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Observe these blue solemnities of sky<br>Offering for the academes of after-ages<br>A mythologic welkin freaked with white!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Listen : one tiny tinkling rivulet<br>Accentuates the super-sultry stillness<br>That drones on ripening landscapes which imply<br>Serene Parnassus plagued with amorous goats.<br>* * * *<br>Far down the vale Apollo has pursued<br>The noon-bedazzled nymph whose hunted heart<br>Holds but the trampling panic whence it fled,<br>And now the heavens are piled with darkening trouble<br>And counter-march of clouds that troop intent<br>Fire-crested into conflict.<br>Daphne turns<br>At the wood's edge in bronze and olive gloom:<br>Sickness assails the sun whose blazing disc<br>Dwindles : the Eden of those auburn slopes<br>Lours in the tarnished copper of eclipse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet virgin in her god-impelled approach<br>To Graeco-Roman ravishment, she waits<br>While the unsated python slides to crush<br>Her lust-eluding fleetness. Envious Jove<br>Rumbles Olympus. All the classic world<br>Leans breathless toward the legend she creates.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From thunderous vapour smites the immortal beam . . .<br>Then, crowned with fangs of foliage, flames the god.<br>* * * *<br>' Apollo ! ' ... Up the autumn valley echoes<br>A hollow shout from nowhere. Daphne's limbs<br>Lapse into laureldom : green-shadowed flesh<br>Writhes aborescent; glamour obscures her gaze<br>With blind and bossed distortion. She escapes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Siegfried+Sassoon">Siegfried Sassoon</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=518991" data-title="Solar Eclipse de Siegfried Sassoon" data-description="Observe these blue solemnities of sky Offering for the academes of after-ages A mythologic welkin freaked with white! Listen : one tiny tinkling rivulet Accentuates the super-sultry stillness That drones on ripening landscapes which imply Serene ..."></div> </div> </div>

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