<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529461" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Before And After Summer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Looking forward to the spring<br>One puts up with anything.<br>On this February day,<br>Though the winds leap down the street,<br>Wintry scourgings seem but play,<br>And these later shafts of sleet<br>- Sharper pointed than the first -<br>And these later snows - the worst -<br>Are as a half-transparent blind<br>Riddled by rays from sun behind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II<br>Shadows of the October pine<br>Reach into this room of mine:<br>On the pine there stands a bird;<br>He is shadowed with the tree.<br>Mutely perched he bills no word;<br>Blank as I am even is he.<br>For those happy suns are past,<br>Fore-discerned in winter last.<br>When went by their pleasure, then?<br>I, alas, perceived not when.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Hardy">Thomas Hardy</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=529461" data-title="Before And After Summer de Thomas Hardy" data-description="I Looking forward to the spring One puts up with anything. On this February day, Though the winds leap down the street, Wintry scourgings seem but play, And these later shafts of sleet - Sharper pointed than the first - And these later snows - th..."></div> </div> </div>

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