<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Presentiment</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Oh father, let us hence--for hark,<br>A fearful murmur shakes the air.<br>The clouds are coming swift and dark:--<br>What horrid shapes they wear!<br>A winged giant sails the sky;<br>Oh father, father, let us fly!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Hush, child; it is a grateful sound,<br>That beating of the summer shower;<br>Here, where the boughs hang close around,<br>We'll pass a pleasant hour,<br>Till the fresh wind, that brings the rain,<br>Has swept the broad heaven clear again.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Nay, father, let us haste--for see,<br>That horrid thing with horned brow,--<br>His wings o'erhang this very tree,<br>He scowls upon us now;<br>His huge black arm is lifted high;<br>Oh father, father, let us fly!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Hush, child;' but, as the father spoke,<br>Downward the livid firebolt came,<br>Close to his ear the thunder broke,<br>And, blasted by the flame,<br>The child lay dead; while dark and still,<br>Swept the grim cloud along the hill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cullen+Bryant">William Cullen Bryant</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=537991" data-title="A Presentiment de William Cullen Bryant" data-description="'Oh father, let us hence--for hark, A fearful murmur shakes the air. The clouds are coming swift and dark:-- What horrid shapes they wear! A winged giant sails the sky; Oh father, father, let us fly!' 'Hush, child; it is a grateful sound, That be..."></div> </div> </div>

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