<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=532797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Traveller-Heart</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(To a Man who maintained that the Mausoleum is the Stateliest Possible Manner of Interment)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I would be one with the dark, dark earth:--<br>Follow the plough with a yokel tread.<br>I would be part of the Indian corn,<br>Walking the rows with the plumes o'erhead. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would be one with the lavish earth, <br>Eating the bee-stung apples red: <br>Walking where lambs walk on the hills;<br>By oak-grove paths to the pools be led.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would be one with the dark-bright night<br>When sparkling skies and the lightning wed--<br>Walking on with the vicious wind<br>By roads whence even the dogs have fled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would be one with the sacred earth<br>On to the end, till I sleep with the dead.<br>Terror shall put no spears through me.<br>Peace shall jewel my shroud instead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I shall be one with all pit-black things<br>Finding their lowering threat unsaid:<br>Stars for my pillow there in the gloom,--<br>Oak-roots arching about my head!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stars, like daisies, shall rise through the earth,<br>Acorns fall round my breast that bled.<br>Children shall weave there a flowery chain,<br>Squirrels on acorn-hearts be fed:--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fruit of the traveller-heart of me,<br>Fruit of my harvest-songs long sped:<br>Sweet with the life of my sunburned days<br>When the sheaves were ripe, and the apples red.</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> <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=532797" data-title="The Traveller-Heart de Vachel Lindsay" data-description="(To a Man who maintained that the Mausoleum is the Stateliest Possible Manner of Interment) I would be one with the dark, dark earth:-- Follow the plough with a yokel tread. I would be part of the Indian corn, Walking the rows with the plumes o'..."></div> </div> </div>

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