<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540800" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A ballad that we do not perish</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those who sailed at dawn<br>but will never return<br>left their trace on a wave--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a shell fell to the bottom of the sea<br>beautiful as lips turned to stone</div><div style="margin:10px 0">those who walked on a sandy road<br>but could not reach the shuttered windows<br>though they already saw the roofs--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">they have found shelter in a bell of air</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but those who leave behind only<br>a room grown cold a few books<br>an empty inkwell white paper--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in truth they have not completely died<br>their whisper travels through thickets of wallpaper<br>their level head still lives in the ceiling</div><div style="margin:10px 0">their paradise was made of air<br>of water lime and earth an angel of wind<br>will pulverize the body in its hand<br>they will be<br>carried over the meadows of this world</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Zbigniew+Herbert">Zbigniew Herbert</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=540800" data-title="A ballad that we do not perish de Zbigniew Herbert" data-description="Those who sailed at dawn but will never return left their trace on a wave-- a shell fell to the bottom of the sea beautiful as lips turned to stone those who walked on a sandy road but could not reach the shuttered windows though they already sa..."></div> </div> </div>

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