<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538270" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Trees And The Menace Of Night</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trees and the menace of night;<br>Then a long, lonely, leaden mere<br>Backed by a desolate fell,<br>As by a spectral battlement; and then,<br>Low-brooding, interpenetrating all,<br>A vast, gray, listless, inexpressive sky,<br>So beggared, so incredibly bereft<br>Of starlight and the song of racing worlds,<br>It might have bellied down upon the Void<br>Where as in terror Light was beginning to be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hist! In the trees fulfilled of night<br>(Night and the wretchedness of the sky)<br>Is it the hurry of the rain?<br>Or the noise of a drive of the Dead,<br>Streaming before the irresistible Will<br>Through the strange dusk of this, the Debateable Land<br>Between their place and ours?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like the forgetfulness<br>Of the work-a-day world made visible,<br>A mist falls from the melancholy sky.<br>A messenger from some lost and loving soul,<br>Hopeless, far wandered, dazed<br>Here in the provinces of life,<br>A great white moth fades miserably past.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thro' the trees in the strange dead night,<br>Under the vast dead sky,<br>Forgetting and forgot, a drift of Dead<br>Sets to the mystic mere, the phantom fell,<br>And the unimagined vastitudes beyond.</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=538270" data-title="Trees And The Menace Of Night de William Ernest Henley" data-description="Trees and the menace of night; Then a long, lonely, leaden mere Backed by a desolate fell, As by a spectral battlement; and then, Low-brooding, interpenetrating all, A vast, gray, listless, inexpressive sky, So beggared, so incredibly bereft Of st..."></div> </div> </div>

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