<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529522" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In a Wood</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In a Wood</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Pale beech and pine-tree blue, <br> Set in one clay, <br>Bough to bough cannot you <br> Bide out your day? <br>When the rains skim and skip, <br>Why mar sweet comradeship, <br>Blighting with poison-drip <br> Neighborly spray? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heart-halt and spirit-lame, <br> City-opprest, <br>Unto this wood I came <br> As to a nest; <br>Dreaming that sylvan peace <br>Offered the harrowed ease— <br>Nature a soft release <br> From men’s unrest. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, having entered in, <br> Great growths and small <br>Show them to men akin— <br> Combatants all! <br>Sycamore shoulders oak, <br>Bines the slim sapling yoke, <br>Ivy-spun halters choke <br> Elms stout and tall. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Touches from ash, O wych, <br> Sting you like scorn! <br>You, too, brave hollies, twitch <br> Sidelong from thorn. <br>Even the rank poplars bear <br>Illy a rival’s air, <br>Cankering in black despair <br> If overborne. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since, then, no grace I find <br> Taught me of trees, <br>Turn I back to my kind, <br> Worthy as these. <br>There at least smiles abound, <br>There discourse trills around, <br>There, now and then, are found <br> Life-loyalties.</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=529522" data-title="In a Wood de Thomas Hardy" data-description="In a Wood Pale beech and pine-tree blue, Set in one clay, Bough to bough cannot you Bide out your day? When the rains skim and skip, Why mar sweet comradeship, Blighting with poison-drip Neighborly spray? Heart-halt and spirit-lame, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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