<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=534016" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Luna</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O France, although you sleep<br>We call you, we the forbidden!<br>The shadows have ears,<br>And the depths have cries.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bitter, glory-less despotism<br>Over a discouraged people<br>Closes a black thick grate<br>Of error and prejudice;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It locks up the loyal swarm<br>Of firm thinkers, of heroes,<br>But the Idea with the flap of a wing<br>Will part the heavy bars,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, as in ninety-one,<br>Will retake sovereign flight,<br>For breaking apart a cage of bronze<br>Is easy for bronze bird.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Darkness covers the world,<br>But the Idea illuminates and shines;<br>With its white brightness it floods<br>The dark blues of the night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is the solitary lantern,<br>The providential ray;<br>It is the lamp of the earth<br>That cannot help but light the sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It calms the suffering soul,<br>Guides life, puts the dead to rest;<br>It shows the mean the gulf,<br>It shows the just the way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In seeing in the dark mist<br>The Idea, love of sad eyes,<br>Rise calm, serene and pure,<br>On the mysterious horizon,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fanaticism and hatred<br>Roar before each threshhold,<br>As obscene hounds howl<br>When appears the moon in mourning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! Think of the mighty Idea,<br>Nations! its superhuman brow<br>Has upon it, from now on, the light<br>That will show the way to tomorrow!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Victor+Hugo">Victor Hugo</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=534016" data-title="Luna de Victor Hugo" data-description="O France, although you sleep We call you, we the forbidden! The shadows have ears, And the depths have cries. Bitter, glory-less despotism Over a discouraged people Closes a black thick grate Of error and prejudice; It locks up the loyal swarm O..."></div> </div> </div>

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