<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539836" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Raven's Shadow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Seabird, elemental sprite,<br>Moulded of the sun and spray-<br>Raven, dreary flake of night<br>Drifting in the eye of day-<br>What in common have ye two,<br>Meeting 'twixt the blue and blue?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou to eastward carriest<br>The keen savour of the foam,-<br>Thou dost bear unto the west<br>Fragrance from thy woody home,<br>Where perchance a house is thine<br>Odorous of the oozy pine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eastward thee thy proper cares,<br>Things of mighty moment, call;<br>Thee to westward thine affairs<br>Summon, weighty matters all:<br>I, where land and sea contest,<br>Watch you eastward, watch you west,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till, in snares of fancy caught,<br>Mystically changed ye seem,<br>And the bird becomes a thought,<br>And the thought becomes a dream,<br>And the dream, outspread on high,<br>Lords it o'er the abject sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Surely I have known before<br>Phantoms of the shapes ye be-<br>Haunters of another shore<br>'Leaguered by another sea.<br>There my wanderings night and morn<br>Reconcile me to the bourn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There the bird of happy wings<br>Wafts the ocean-news I crave;<br>Rumours of an isle he brings<br>Gemlike on the golden wave:<br>But the baleful beak and plume<br>Scatter immelodious gloom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though the flow'rs be faultless made,<br>Perfectly to live and die-<br>Though the bright clouds bloom and fade<br>Flow'rlike 'midst a meadowy sky-<br>Where this raven roams forlorn<br>Veins of midnight flaw the morn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He not less will croak and croak<br>As he ever caws and caws,<br>Till the starry dance he broke,<br>Till the sphery pæan pause,<br>And the universal chime<br>Falter out of tune and time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Coils the labyrinthine sea<br>Duteous to the lunar will,<br>But some discord stealthily<br>Vexes the world-ditty still,<br>And the bird that caws and caws<br>Clasps creation with his claws.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Watson">William Watson</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=539836" data-title="The Raven's Shadow de William Watson" data-description="Seabird, elemental sprite, Moulded of the sun and spray- Raven, dreary flake of night Drifting in the eye of day- What in common have ye two, Meeting 'twixt the blue and blue? Thou to eastward carriest The keen savour of the foam,- Thou dost bear..."></div> </div> </div>

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