<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529241" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To The Rainbow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky<br>When storms prepare to part,<br>I ask not proud Philosophy<br>To teach me what thou art; -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still seem; as to my childhood's sight,<br>A midway station given<br>For happy spirits to alight<br>Betwixt the earth and heaven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can all that Optics teach unfold<br>Thy form to please me so,<br>As when I dreamt of gems and gold<br>Hid in thy radiant bow?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Science from Creation's face<br>Enchantment's veil withdraws,<br>What lovely visions yield their place<br>To cold material laws!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams,<br>But words of the Most High,<br>Have told why first thy robe of beams<br>Was woven in the sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When o'er the green, undeluged earth<br>Heaven's covenant thou didst shine,<br>How came the world's gray fathers forth<br>To watch thy sacred sign!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when its yellow luster smiled<br>O'er mountains yet untrod,<br>Each mother held aloft her child<br>To bless the bow of God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Methinks, thy jubilee to keep,<br>The first-made anthem rang<br>On earth, delivered from the deep,<br>And the first poet sang.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor ever shall the Muse's eye<br>Unraptured greet thy beam;<br>Theme of primeval prophecy,<br>Be still the prophet's theme!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The earth to thee her incense yields,<br>The lark thy welcome sings,<br>When, glittering in the freshened fields,<br>The snowy mushroom springs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How glorious is thy girdle, cast<br>O'er mountain, tower, and town,<br>Or mirrored in the ocean vast,<br>A thousand fathoms down!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As fresh in yon horizon dark,<br>As young thy beauties seem,<br>As when the eagle from the ark<br>First sported in thy beam:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For, faithful to its sacred page,<br>Heaven still rebuilds thy span;<br>Nor lets the type grow pale with age,<br>That first spoke peace to man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Campbell">Thomas Campbell</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=529241" data-title="To The Rainbow de Thomas Campbell" data-description="Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art; - Still seem; as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. Ca..."></div> </div> </div>

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