<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538272" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Under A Stagnant Sky</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Under a stagnant sky,<br>Gloom out of gloom uncoiling into gloom,<br>The River, jaded and forlorn,<br>Welters and wanders wearily--wretchedly--on;<br>Yet in and out among the ribs<br>Of the old skeleton bridge, as in the piles<br>Of some dead lake-built city, full of skulls,<br>Worm-worn, rat-riddled, mouldy with memories,<br>Lingers to babble to a broken tune<br>(Once, O, the unvoiced music of my heart!)<br>So melancholy a soliloquy<br>It sounds as it might tell<br>The secret of the unending grief-in-grain,<br>The terror of Time and Change and Death,<br>That wastes this floating, transitory world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What of the incantation<br>That forced the huddled shapes on yonder shore<br>To take and wear the night<br>Like a material majesty?<br>That touched the shafts of wavering fire<br>About this miserable welter and wash -<br>(River, O River of Journeys, River of Dreams!) -<br>Into long, shining signals from the panes<br>Of an enchanted pleasure-house,<br>Where life and life might live life lost in life<br>For ever and evermore?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Death! O Change! O Time!<br>Without you, O, the insuperable eyes<br>Of these poor Might-Have-Beens,<br>These fatuous, ineffectual Yesterdays!</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=538272" data-title="Under A Stagnant Sky de William Ernest Henley" data-description="Under a stagnant sky, Gloom out of gloom uncoiling into gloom, The River, jaded and forlorn, Welters and wanders wearily--wretchedly--on; Yet in and out among the ribs Of the old skeleton bridge, as in the piles Of some dead lake-built city, full ..."></div> </div> </div>

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