<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539400" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shore Birds</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">While I think of them they are growing rare<br>after the distances they have followed<br>all the way to the end for the first time<br>tracing a memory they did not have<br>until they set out to remember it<br>at an hour when all at once it was late<br>and newly silent and the white had turned<br>white around them then they rose in their choir<br>on a single note each of them alone<br>between the pull of the moon and the hummed<br>undertone of the earth below them<br>the glass curtains kept falling around them<br>as they flew in search of their place before<br>they were anywhere and storms winnowed them<br>they flew among the places with towers<br>and passed the tower lights where some vanished<br>with their long legs for wading in shadow<br>others were caught and stayed in the countries<br>of the nets and in the lands of lime twigs<br>some fastened and after the countries of<br>guns at first light fewer of them than I<br>remember would be here to recognize<br>the light of late summer when they found it<br>playing with darkness along the wet sand</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Stanley+Merwin">William Stanley Merwin</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=539400" data-title="Shore Birds de William Stanley Merwin" data-description="While I think of them they are growing rare after the distances they have followed all the way to the end for the first time tracing a memory they did not have until they set out to remember it at an hour when all at once it was late and newly sil..."></div> </div> </div>

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