<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519248" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Minora Sidera</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sitting at times over a hearth that burns<br>With dull domestic glow,<br>My thought, leaving the book, gratefully turns<br>To you who planned it so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not of the great only you deigned to tell---<br>The stars by which we steer---<br>But lights out of the night that flashed, and fell<br>Tonight again, are here.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such as were those, dogs of an elder day,<br>Who sacked the golden ports,<br>And those later who dared grapple their prey<br>Beneath the harbour forts:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some with flag at the fore, sweeping the world<br>To find an equal fight,<br>And some who joined war to their trade, and hurled<br>Ships of the line in flight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whether their fame centuries long should ring<br>They cared not over-much,<br>But cared greatly to serve God and the king,<br>And keep the Nelson touch;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And fought to build Britain above the tide<br>Of wars and windy fate;<br>And passed content, leaving to us the pride<br>Of lives obscurely great.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sir+Henry+Newbolt">Sir Henry Newbolt</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=519248" data-title="Minora Sidera de Sir Henry Newbolt" data-description="Sitting at times over a hearth that burns With dull domestic glow, My thought, leaving the book, gratefully turns To you who planned it so. Not of the great only you deigned to tell--- The stars by which we steer--- But lights out of the night th..."></div> </div> </div>

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