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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529881" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Magic Bark</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O freedom! power of life and light! <br>Sole nurse of truth and glory! <br>Bright dweller on the rocky cliff! <br>Lone wanderer on the sea! <br>Where'er the sunbeam slumbers bright <br>On snow-clad mountains hoary; <br>Wherever flies the veering skiff, <br>O'er waves that breathe of thee! <br>Be thou the guide of all my thoughtÑ <br>The source of all my beingÑ <br>The genius of my waking mind---<br>The spirit of my dreams! <br>To me thy magic spell be taught, <br>The captive spirit freeing, <br>To wander with the ocean-wind <br>Where'er thy beacon beams. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O! sweet it were, in magic bark, <br>On one loved breast reclining, <br>To sail around the varied world, <br>To every blooming shore; <br>And oft the gathering storm to mark <br>Its lurid folds combining; <br>And safely ride, with sails unfurled, <br>Amid the tempest's roar; <br>And see the mighty breakers rave <br>On cliff, and sand, and shingle, <br>And hear, with long re-echoing shock, <br>The caverned steeps reply; <br>And while the storm-cloud and the wave <br>In darkness seemed to mingle, <br>To skim beside the surf-swept rock, <br>And glide uninjured by. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when the summer seas were calm, <br>And summer skies were smiling, <br>And evening came, with clouds of gold, <br>To gild the western wave; <br>And gentle airs and dews of balm, <br>The pensive mind beguiling, <br>Should call the Ocean Swain to fold <br>His sea-flocks in the cave, <br>Unearthly music's tenderest spell, <br>With gentlest breezes blending <br>And waters softly rippling near <br>The prow's light course along, <br>Should flow from Triton's winding shell, <br>Through ocean's depths ascending <br>From where it charmed the Nereid's ear, <br>Her coral bowers among. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>IV.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How sweet, where eastern Nature smiles, <br>With swift and mazy motion <br>Before the odour-breathing breeze <br>Of dewy morn to glide; <br>Or, 'mid the thousand emerald isles <br>That gem the southern ocean, <br>Where fruits and flowers, from loveliest trees, <br>O'erhang the slumbering tide: <br>Or up some western stream to sail, <br>To where its myriad fountains <br>Roll down their everlasting rills <br>From many a cloud-capped height, <br>Till mingling in some nameless vale, <br>'Mid forest-cinctured mountains, <br>The river-cataract shakes the hills <br>With vast and volumed might. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>V.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poison-trees their leaves should shed, <br>The yellow snake should perish, <br>The beasts of blood should crouch and cower, <br>Where'er that vessel past: <br>All plagues of fens and vapours bred, <br>That tropic fervors cherish, <br>Should fly before its healing power, <br>Like mists before the blast. <br>Where'er its keel the strand imprest, <br>The young fruit's ripening cluster, <br>The bird's free song, its touch should greet, <br>The opening flower's perfume; <br>The streams zalong the green earth's breast <br>Should roll in purer lustre, <br>And love should heighten every sweet, <br>And brighten every bloom. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VI.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, Freedom! thy meridian blaze <br>Should chase the clouds that lower, <br>Wherever mental twilight dim <br>Obscures Truth's vestal flame, <br>Wherever Fraud and Slavery raise <br>The throne of blood-stained Power, <br>Wherever Fear and Ignorance hymn <br>Some fabled daemon's name! <br>The bard, where torrents thunder down <br>Beside thy burning altar, <br>Should kindle, as in days of old, <br>The mind's ethereal fire; <br>Ere yet beneath a tyrant's frown <br>The Muse's voice could falter, <br>Or Flattery strung with chords of gold <br>The minstrel's venal Iyre.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Love+Peacock">Thomas Love Peacock</a><div class=q>
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O freedom! power of life and light! 
Sole nurse of truth and glory! 
Bright dweller on the rocky cliff! 
Lone wanderer on the sea! 
Where'er the sunbeam slumbers bright 
On snow-clad mountains hoary; 
Wherever flies the veering skiff, 
O'er wav..."></div>
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