<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538629" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: At Dover Cliffs, July 20th 1787</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On these white cliffs, that calm above the flood<br>Uplift their shadowing heads, and, at their feet,<br>Scarce hear the surge that has for ages beat,<br>Sure many a lonely wanderer has stood;<br>And whilst the lifted murmur met his ear,<br>And o'er the distant billows the still eve<br>Sailed slow, has thought of all his heart must leave<br>Tomorrow; of the friends he loved most dear;<br>Of social scenes, from which he wept to part;<br>But if, like me, he knew how fruitless all<br>The thoughts that would full fain the past recall,<br>Soon would he quell the risings of his heart,<br>And brave the wild winds and unhearing tide,<br>The world his country, and his God his guide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Lisle+Bowles">William Lisle Bowles</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=538629" data-title="Sonnet: At Dover Cliffs, July 20th 1787 de William Lisle Bowles" data-description="On these white cliffs, that calm above the flood Uplift their shadowing heads, and, at their feet, Scarce hear the surge that has for ages beat, Sure many a lonely wanderer has stood; And whilst the lifted murmur met his ear, And o'er the distant ..."></div> </div> </div>

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