<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539522" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Only Day In Existence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The early sun is so pale and shadowy,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I could be looking up at a ghost</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in the shape of a window,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a tall, rectangular spirit</div><div style="margin:10px 0">looking down at me in bed,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">about to demand that I avenge</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the murder of my father.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the morning light is only the first line</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in the play of this day-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the only day in existence-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the opening chord of its long song,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or think of what is permeating</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the thin bedroom curtains</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">as the beginning of a lecture</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will listen to until it is dark,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a curious student in a V-neck sweater,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">angled into the wooden chair of his life,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ready with notebook and a chewed-up pencil,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">quiet as a goldfish in winter,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">serious as a compass at sea,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">eager to absorb whatever lesson</div><div style="margin:10px 0">this damp, overcast Tuesday</div><div style="margin:10px 0">has to teach me,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">here in the spacious classroom of the world</div><div style="margin:10px 0">with its long walls of glass,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">its heavy, low-hung ceiling.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Taylor+Collins">William Taylor Collins</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=539522" data-title="The Only Day In Existence de William Taylor Collins" data-description="The early sun is so pale and shadowy, I could be looking up at a ghost in the shape of a window, a tall, rectangular spirit looking down at me in bed, about to demand that I avenge the murder of my father. But the morning light is only the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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