<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537053" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Coole Park, 1929</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I meditate upon a swallow's flight,<br>Upon a aged woman and her house,<br>A sycamore and lime-tree lost in night<br>Although that western cloud is luminous,<br>Great works constructed there in nature's spite<br>For scholars and for poets after us,<br>Thoughts long knitted into a single thought,<br>A dance-like glory that those walls begot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There Hyde before he had beaten into prose<br>That noble blade the Muses buckled on,<br>There one that ruffled in a manly pose<br>For all his timid heart, there that slow man,<br>That meditative man, John Synge, and those<br>Impetuous men, Shawe-Taylor and Hugh Lane,<br>Found pride established in humility,<br>A scene well Set and excellent company.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They came like swallows and like swallows went,<br>And yet a woman's powerful character<br>Could keep a Swallow to its first intent;<br>And half a dozen in formation there,<br>That seemed to whirl upon a compass-point,<br>Found certainty upon the dreaming air,<br>The intellectual sweetness of those lines<br>That cut through time or cross it withershins.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here, traveller, scholar, poet, take your stand<br>When all those rooms and passages are gone,<br>When nettles wave upon a shapeless mound<br>And saplings root among the broken stone,<br>And dedicate - eyes bent upon the ground,<br>Back turned upon the brightness of the sun<br>And all the sensuality of the shade -<br>A moment's memory to that laurelled head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Butler+Yeats">William Butler Yeats</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=537053" data-title="Coole Park, 1929 de William Butler Yeats" data-description="I meditate upon a swallow's flight, Upon a aged woman and her house, A sycamore and lime-tree lost in night Although that western cloud is luminous, Great works constructed there in nature's spite For scholars and for poets after us, Thoughts long..."></div> </div> </div>

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