<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540919" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Awakening</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The Awakening'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>By<br>Charles L. East</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>There comes…<br>at times…<br>an insidious awakening<br>that stirs my soul to memories,<br>so faint,<br>intangible,<br>of past strife and death<br>…and life…<br>of glories faded, buried,<br>as though they never were.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet…<br>I hear the distant drums of war<br>and the heralding trumpet's muted voices,<br>and dimly see<br>a legion of shimmering golden helmets…<br>their plumes dancing in Sparta's wind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I feel the blistering sting of cold salt spray<br>as I behold the failing sun slip quietly<br>beneath an unforgiving sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My life's blood absorbed by the warm sands<br>of Rome's coliseum…<br>I am aware<br>of the fragrance of the Earth<br>in Flanders field.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There comes…<br>at times…<br>an insidious awakening.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+L.+East">Charles L. East</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=540919" data-title="The Awakening de Charles L. East" data-description="'The Awakening' By Charles L. East There comes… at times… an insidious awakening that stirs my soul to memories, so faint, intangible, of past strife and death …and life… of glories faded, buried, as though they never were. Yet… I h..."></div> </div> </div>

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