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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=545424" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Another Raven Story (A Fable)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It dost speak and live free.<br>Tamed by men and virtuous scores<br>The raven's been scarred and bleeding.<br>'Nevermore should wounds be healed.<br>Nevermore must I fly.<br>Death comes as I glide away, <br>I'd rather bleed here and die! <br>To seek freedom is to seek death<br>As lifespans linger on.<br>So dost my time clock ticks<br>Wearing my breath down for long.'<br>He took his plight and roam the earth<br>Not wanting to flap his feathered wings.<br>Mingling with rodents and crawling insects<br>As birds of his kind flew free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His wounds have healed in time<br>But he dost stay there, still.<br>'I'll live here alone and happy<br>With a world far beyond my mind.<br>I, a raven, a bird no more; <br>A creature of earthly soil.<br>I declare myself splendid<br>Above the birds I know.<br>No bird nor life should call me 'Raven'<br>For bird am I no more.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He met some friends, <br>Some creatures from the ground.<br>'Why art ye this way? ' They asked.<br>So he told his story to all.<br>'But thou art a bird.' Said the other.<br>'And thou shalt not deny it.' Said one.<br>'Fortunate ye are with wings<br>Able to explore horizons.<br>Unlike us who cannot fly<br>When fires scorch the seasons.'<br>After that all departed<br>Thinking how strange the raven's been.<br>Feeling unwanted, he left.<br>Still walking, and not with wings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Night falls, he finds no shelter.<br>No caves nor holes to spend the night.<br>His pride's too big for him to go back<br>To trees he lived, and once called home.<br>'Further steps would lead new places.<br>By far, strive hard and well be patient.<br>My outstretched legs must be kept working<br>For me to be strong and survive.'<br>Says he, the raven, denying flight; <br>Too proud enough to swallow his pride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dawn's arriving though it's still dark.<br>The raven saw this creature and spoke out loud: <br>'Ye rat, why dost ye have wings? '<br>Says he, 'Me not a rat, you see; <br>A mammal of flight am I, a bat! '<br>Swung free open his wings and flew, <br>Glides pass the dark, out of moonlight's sight.<br>'Is he happy? ' Asked the raven to himself.<br>Sunrise approaching, but still he hasn't rested.<br>'Guess I have to use these wings.' Quoth he.<br>'I have no life wandering. The sky's my life.<br>How treacherous its pangs may be.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dennis+Go">Dennis Go</a><div class=q>
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Tamed by men and virtuous scores
The raven's been scarred and bleeding.
'Nevermore should wounds be healed.
Nevermore must I fly.
Death comes as I glide away, 
I'd rather bleed here and die! 
To seek freedom is to seek..."></div>
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