<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=534952" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>As I Ponder'd In Silence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AS I ponder'd in silence,<br> Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long,<br> A Phantom arose before me, with distrustful aspect,<br> Terrible in beauty, age, and power,<br> The genius of poets of old lands,<br> As to me directing like flame its eyes,<br> With finger pointing to many immortal songs,<br> And menacing voice, What singest thou? it said;<br> Know'st thou not, there is but one theme for ever-enduring bards?<br> And that is the theme of War, the fortune of battles, 10<br> The making of perfect soldiers?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> Be it so, then I answer'd,<br> I too, haughty Shade, also sing war--and a longer and greater one<br> than any,<br> Waged in my book with varying fortune--with flight, advance, and<br> retreat--Victory deferr'd and wavering,<br> (Yet, methinks, certain, or as good as certain, at the last,)--The<br> field the world;<br> For life and death--for the Body, and for the eternal Soul,<br> Lo! too am come, chanting the chant of battles,<br> I, above all, promote brave soldiers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walt+Whitman">Walt Whitman</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=534952" data-title="As I Ponder'd In Silence de Walt Whitman" data-description="AS I ponder'd in silence, Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long, A Phantom arose before me, with distrustful aspect, Terrible in beauty, age, and power, The genius of poets of old lands, As to me directing like flame its eyes, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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