<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=530044" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wandering Bard</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What life like that of the bard can be -- <br>The wandering bard, who roams as free <br>As the mountain lark that o'er him sings, <br>And, like that lark a music brings, <br>Within him, where'er he comes or goes -- <br>A fount that for ever flows! <br>The world's to him like some playground, <br>Where fairies dance their moonlight round; -- <br>It dimm'd the turf where late they trod; <br>The elves but seek some greener sod; <br>So, when less bright his scene of glee, <br>To another away flies he! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, what would have been young Beauty's doom <br>Without a bard to fix her bloom? <br>They tell us, in the moon's bright round, <br>Things lost in this dark world are found; <br>So charms, on earth long pass'd and gone, <br>In the poet's lay live on. -- <br>Would you have smiles that ne'er grow dim? <br>You've only to give them all to him, <br>Who, with but a touch of Fancy's wand, <br>Can lend them life, this life beyond. <br>And fix them high, in Poesy's sky -- <br>Young stars that never die! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then welcome the bard where'er he comes, <br>For, though he hath countless airy homes, <br>To which his wing excursive roves, <br>Yet still, from time to time, he loves <br>To light upon earth and find such cheer <br>As brightens our banquet here. <br>No matter how far, how fleet he flies, <br>You've only to light up kind young eyes, <br>Such signal-fires as here are given-- <br>And down he'll drop from Fancy's heaven, <br>The minute such call to love or mirth <br>Proclaim's he's wanting on the earth!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Moore">Thomas Moore</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=530044" data-title="The Wandering Bard de Thomas Moore" data-description="What life like that of the bard can be -- The wandering bard, who roams as free As the mountain lark that o'er him sings, And, like that lark a music brings, Within him, where'er he comes or goes -- A fount that for ever flows! The world's t..."></div> </div> </div>

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