<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529171" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Reading William Watson's Sonnet Entitled The Purple East</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Restless the Northern Bear amid his snows <br>Crouched by the Neva; menacing is France, <br>That sees the shadow of the Uhlan's lance <br>On her clipped borders; struggling in the throes <br>Of wanton war lies Spain, and deathward goes. <br>And thou, O England, how the time's mischance <br>Hath fettered thee, that with averted glance <br>Thou standest, marble to Armenia's woes! <br>If 'twas thy haughty Dauther of the West <br>That stayed thy hand,, a word had driven away <br>Her sudden ire, and brought her to thy breast! <br>Thy blood makes quick her pulses, and some day, <br>Not now, yet some day, at thy soft behest <br>She by thy side shall hold the world at bay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Bailey+Aldrich">Thomas Bailey Aldrich</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=529171" data-title="On Reading William Watson's Sonnet Entitled The Purple East de Thomas Bailey Aldrich" data-description="Restless the Northern Bear amid his snows Crouched by the Neva; menacing is France, That sees the shadow of the Uhlan's lance On her clipped borders; struggling in the throes Of wanton war lies Spain, and deathward goes. And thou, O England, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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