<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=532929" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Beaten Track</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lying in a trance on a rocking chair, <br>In the living room of my quiet home, <br>The buzzing sound of a fretful bee, <br>Woke me up from my pleasant reverie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Again and again the droning hiss, <br>Fell faintly in my vacant ear.<br>It came so close from the window sill, <br>Fastened tight with glass shutters.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On looking up, I chanced to glance, <br>A little fly that reeled around, <br>Trying in vain to find its way, <br>Through the narrow slit, into the open sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the poor insect trapped inside, <br>It was all a matter of live or die, <br>Again and again it beat so hard, <br>Against the glass window that lay ajar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I watched lazily its poignant tussle, <br>To get away or to stay asunder.<br>Desperate between life and death, <br>It mustered all its remaining strength.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Try hard and try again, <br>Was all that what it dared to do, <br>And every feat converged on - <br>Getting out through the window pane.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! Across the room, quite close, <br>Lay open the door, it never did see, <br> With hurdles none to block its way, <br>Or hinder it in its forward flight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Had it taken a different course, <br>It could dart out into the world it sought, <br>And spared the strength it burnt in vain, <br>In the frenzied move to set it free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By treading through the beaten track, <br>We might perish like the trapped fly.<br>For reaching out into wider skies, <br>We may take as well a different route.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Valsa+George">Valsa George</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=532929" data-title="The Beaten Track de Valsa George" data-description="Lying in a trance on a rocking chair, In the living room of my quiet home, The buzzing sound of a fretful bee, Woke me up from my pleasant reverie. Again and again the droning hiss, Fell faintly in my vacant ear. It came so close from the win..."></div> </div> </div>

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