<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529523" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In A Wook</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">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=529523" data-title="In A Wook de Thomas Hardy" data-description="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, City-opprest, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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