<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538233" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Prologue</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Something is dead . . .<br>The grace of sunset solitudes, the march<br>Of the solitary moon, the pomp and power<br>Of round on round of shining soldier-stars<br>Patrolling space, the bounties of the sun -<br>Sovran, tremendous, unimaginable -<br>The multitudinous friendliness of the sea,<br>Possess no more--no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Something is dead . . .<br>The Autumn rain-rot deeper and wider soaks<br>And spreads, the burden of Winter heavier weighs,<br>His melancholy close and closer yet<br>Cleaves, and those incantations of the Spring<br>That made the heart a centre of miracles<br>Grow formal, and the wonder-working bours<br>Arise no more--no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Something is dead . . .<br>'Tis time to creep in close about the fire<br>And tell grey tales of what we were, and dream<br>Old dreams and faded, and as we may rejoice<br>In the young life that round us leaps and laughs,<br>A fountain in the sunshine, in the pride<br>Of God's best gift that to us twain returns,<br>Dear Heart, no more--no more.</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=538233" data-title="Prologue de William Ernest Henley" data-description="Something is dead . . . The grace of sunset solitudes, the march Of the solitary moon, the pomp and power Of round on round of shining soldier-stars Patrolling space, the bounties of the sun - Sovran, tremendous, unimaginable - The multitudinous f..."></div> </div> </div>

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