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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=546182" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballad Of The Mad Ladye</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rowan tree grows by the tower foot,<br>(_Flotsam and jetsam from over the sea,<br>Can the dead feel joy or pain?_)<br>And the owls in the ivy blink and hoot,<br>And the sea-waves bubble around its root,<br>Where kelp and tangle and sea-shells be,<br>When the bat in the dark flies silently.<br>(_Hark to the wind and the rain._)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ladye sits in the turret alone,<br>(_Flotsam and jetsam from over the sea,<br>The dead--can they complain?_)<br>And her long hair down to her knee has grown,<br>And her hand is cold as a hand of stone,<br>And wan as a band of flesh may be,<br>While the bird in the bower sings merrily.<br>(_Hark to the wind and the rain._)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sadly she leans by her casement side<br>(_Flotsam and jetsam from over the sea,<br>Can the dead arise again?_)<br>And watcheth the ebbing and flowing tide,<br>But her eye is dim, and the sea is wide;<br>The fisherman's sail and the cloud flies free<br>And the bird is mute in the rowan tree.<br>(_Hark to the wind and the rain._)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The moon shone in on the turret stair<br>(_Flotsam and jetsam from over the sea,<br>The dead are bound with a chain._)<br>And touched her cheek and brightened her hair,<br>And found naught else in the world so fair,<br>So ghostly fair as the mad ladye,<br>While the bird in the bower sang lonesomely.<br>(_Hark to the wind and the rain._)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The weary days and the months crept on,<br>(_Flotsam and jetsam from over the sea,<br>The words of the dead are vain_)<br>At last the summer was over and gone,<br>And still she sat in her turret alone,<br>Her white hands clasping about her knee,<br>And the bird was mute in the rowan tree.<br>(_Hark to the wind and the rain._)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wild was the sound of the wind and the sleet,<br>(_Flotsam and jetsam from over the sea.<br>The dead--do they walk again?_)<br>Wilder the roar of the surf that beat;<br>Whose was the form that it bore to her feet<br>Swayed with the swell of the unquiet sea,<br>While the raven croaked in the rowan tree.<br>(_Hark to the wind and the rain._)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh Lady, strange is the silent guest--<br>(_Flotsam and jetsam cast up by the sea,<br>Can the dead feel sorrow or pain?_)<br>With the sea-drenched locks and the pulseless breast<br>And the close-shut lips which thine have pressed<br>And the wide sad eyes that heed not thee,<br>While the raven croaks in the rowan tree.<br>(_Hark to the wind and the rain._)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The tower is dark, and the doors are wide,<br>(_Flotsam and jetsam cast up by the sea,<br>The dead are at peace again._)<br>Into the harbour the fisher boats ride,<br>But two went out with the ebbing tide,<br>Without sail, without oar, full fast and free,<br>And the raven croaks in the rowan tree.<br>(_Hark to the wind and the rain._)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Kate+Seymour+Maclean">Kate Seymour Maclean</a><div class=q>
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(_Flotsam and jetsam from over the sea,
Can the dead feel joy or pain?_)
And the owls in the ivy blink and hoot,
And the sea-waves bubble around its root,
Where kelp and tangle and sea-shells be,
When the ba..."></div>
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