<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529676" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Shadow On The Stone</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I went by the Druid stone <br>That broods in the garden white and lone, <br>And I stopped and looked at the shifting shadows <br>That at some moments fall thereon <br>From the tree hard by with a rhythmic swing, <br>And they shaped in my imagining <br>To the shade that a well-known head and shoulders <br>Threw there when she was gardening. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thought her behind my back, <br>Yea, her I long had learned to lack, <br>And I said: ‘I am sure you are standing behind me, <br>Though how do you get into this old track?’ <br>And there was no sound but the fall of a leaf <br>As a sad response; and to keep down grief <br>I would not turn my head to discover <br>That there was nothing in my belief. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet I wanted to look and see <br>That nobody stood at the back of me; <br>But I thought once more: ‘Nay, I’ll not unvision <br>A shape which, somehow, there may be.’ <br>So I went on softly from the glade, <br>And left her behind me throwing her shade, <br>As she were indeed an apparition— <br>My head unturned lest my dream should fade.</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=529676" data-title="The Shadow On The Stone de Thomas Hardy" data-description="I went by the Druid stone That broods in the garden white and lone, And I stopped and looked at the shifting shadows That at some moments fall thereon From the tree hard by with a rhythmic swing, And they shaped in my imagining To the shade ..."></div> </div> </div>

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