<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=547797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cambridge</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cambridge is Brueghel's Village come to life<br>Warren of Gothic windows, red brick walls <br>Eating, laughing, drinking on the streets<br>Visitors throng the eateries and halls<br>Ring Toni's Ice cream van and market stalls</div><div style="margin:10px 0">See there, a wattle fence, a low thatched roof<br>Clipped cleanly as a tonsured, shiny friar! <br>Ale houses, colleges, and grazing cows<br>All line the River Cam, by College spire</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Daffodils, aconites, anemones, <br>Swans gliding up to punts along the backs<br>Sun dappled bridges, lazy, languid days<br>The splash of water raised by oar smacks</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A cycling city, all the world is here<br>Queen's College, where Erasmus came to teach<br>Labelling local girls ‘the kissing kind'<br>Oh, Youth's the time to suck life like a peach</div><div style="margin:10px 0">John Harvard, an Emmanuel graduate<br>Son of a Southwark butcher, crossed the seas<br>Funding a college in the Pilgrim World <br>His name, his library, success's keys</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Magdalene College houses Pepys's diary<br>Christ's College boasts bee-hives, a mulberry tree<br>That shaded Milton as he wrote his poems<br>None could compose so powerfully as he</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Corpus Christi holds King Alfred's book<br>The Anglo Saxon Chronicle and Psalter<br>Once owned by Thomas Becket, martyred man, <br>Murdered within the sight of holy altar</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The College of St John set on the Cam<br>Beside the Bridge of Sighs, has a Great Gate<br>With mythic beasts. Three saints attended <br>Here, along with bishops and great heads of state</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nobel Prize winners, Huxton, Bragg, et al<br>Came up to Trinity, and that bête noire, <br>Lord Byron, kept his pet bear Bruin here<br>Down in the stables, poetry's dark star</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the rain falls out of the Heavens<br>And sparkles, with sun distilled<br>Like the thoughts of the Cambridge scholars<br>Who the Book of Knowledge has filled</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sheena+Blackhall">Sheena Blackhall</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=547797" data-title="Cambridge de Sheena Blackhall" data-description="Cambridge is Brueghel's Village come to life Warren of Gothic windows, red brick walls Eating, laughing, drinking on the streets Visitors throng the eateries and halls Ring Toni's Ice cream van and market stalls See there, a wattle fence, a low ..."></div> </div> </div>

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