<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538123" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Desolate Shore</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A desolate shore,<br>The sinister seduction of the Moon,<br>The menace of the irreclaimable Sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Flaunting, tawdry and grim,<br>From cloud to cloud along her beat,<br>Leering her battered and inveterate leer,<br>She signals where he prowls in the dark alone,<br>Her horrible old man,<br>Mumbling old oaths and warming<br>His villainous old bones with villainous talk -<br>The secrets of their grisly housekeeping<br>Since they went out upon the pad<br>In the first twilight of self-conscious Time:<br>Growling, hideous and hoarse,<br>Tales of unnumbered Ships,<br>Goodly and strong, Companions of the Advance,<br>In some vile alley of the night<br>Waylaid and bludgeoned -<br>Dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Deep cellared in primeval ooze,<br>Ruined, dishonoured, spoiled,<br>They lie where the lean water-worm<br>Crawls free of their secrets, and their broken sides<br>Bulge with the slime of life. Thus they abide,<br>Thus fouled and desecrate,<br>The summons of the Trumpet, and the while<br>These Twain, their murderers,<br>Unravined, imperturbable, unsubdued,<br>Hang at the heels of their children--She aloft<br>As in the shining streets,<br>He as in ambush at some accomplice door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The stalwart Ships,<br>The beautiful and bold adventurers!<br>Stationed out yonder in the isle,<br>The tall Policeman,<br>Flashing his bull's-eye, as he peers<br>About him in the ancient vacancy,<br>Tells them this way is safety--this way home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Ernest+Henley">William Ernest Henley</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=538123" data-title="A Desolate Shore de William Ernest Henley" data-description="A desolate shore, The sinister seduction of the Moon, The menace of the irreclaimable Sea. Flaunting, tawdry and grim, From cloud to cloud along her beat, Leering her battered and inveterate leer, She signals where he prowls in the dark alone, He..."></div> </div> </div>

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