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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=532667" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Eden in Winter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Supposed to be chanted to some rude instrument at a modern fireplace]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Chant we the story now <br>Tho' in a house we sleep; <br>Tho' by a hearth of coals <br>Vigil to-night we keep. <br>Chant we the story now, <br>Of the vague love we knew <br>When I from out the sea <br>Rose to the feet of you. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bird from the cliffs you came, <br>Flew thro' the snow to me, <br>Facing the icy blast <br>There by the icy sea. <br>How did I reach your feet? <br>Why should I — at the end <br>Hold out half-frozen hands <br>Dumbly to you my friend? <br>Ne'er had I woman seen, <br>Ne'er had I seen a flame. <br>There you piled fagots on, <br>Heat rose — the blast to tame. <br>There by the cave-door dark, <br>Comforting me you cried — <br>Wailed o'er my wounded knee, <br>Wept for my rock-torn side. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Up from the South I trailed — <br>Left regions fierce and fair! <br>Left all the jungle-trees, <br>Left the red tiger's lair. <br>Dream led, I scarce knew why, <br>Into your North I trod — <br>Ne'er had I known the snow, <br>Or the frost-blasted sod. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O how the flakes came down! <br>O how the fire burned high! <br>Strange thing to see he was, <br>Thro' his dry twigs would fly, <br>Creep there awhile and sleep — <br>Then wake and bark for fight — <br>Biting if I too near <br>Came to his eye so bright. <br>Then with a will you fed <br>Wood to his hungry tongue. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then he did leap and sing — <br>Dancing the clouds among, <br>Turning the night to noon, <br>Stinging my eyes with light, <br>Making the snow retreat, <br>Making the cave-house bright. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were dry fagots piled, <br>Nuts and dry leaves and roots, <br>Stores there of furs and hides, <br>Sweet-barks and grains and fruits. <br>There wrapped in fur we lay, <br>Half-burned, half-frozen still — <br>Ne'er will my soul forget <br>All the night's bitter chill. <br>We had not learned to speak, <br>I was to you a strange <br>Wolfling or wounded fawn, <br>Lost from his forest-range. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thirsting for bloody meat, <br>Out at the dawn we went. <br>Weighed with our prey at eve, <br>Home-came we all forespent. <br>Comrades and hunters tried <br>Ere we were maid and man — <br>Not till the spring awoke <br>Laughter and speech began. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whining like forest dogs, <br>Rustling like budding trees, <br>Bubbling like thawing springs, <br>Humming like little bees, <br>Crooning like Maytime tides, <br>Chattering parrot words, <br>Crying the panther's cry, <br>Chirping like mating birds — <br>Thus, thus, we learned to speak, <br>Who mid the snows were dumb, <br>Nor did we learn to kiss <br>Until the Spring had come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Vachel+Lindsay">Vachel Lindsay</a><div class=q>
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Chant we the story now 
Tho' in a house we sleep; 
Tho' by a hearth of coals 
Vigil to-night we keep. 
Chant we the story now, 
Of the vague love we knew 
When I from out the..."></div>
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