<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=551525" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Envying the Lichen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The gnawing lichen dissolve the mountains<br>In leisured nibbles of eternity.<br>When they rise at last from their long repast, <br>Who will have noticed the flicker of me? <br>Brief was I here, in my frozen moment, <br>Reveling in my tiny piece of now, <br>Bounded in my nutshell, largely content, <br>Blind to beginning, end, the why or how<br>Of the tale. Still I wonder, and envy<br>The lichen, chewing the granite like a cow<br>Its cud, ruminating so patiently<br>Over the pageant, as swift glaciers plow<br>The plains, and oceans flow and ebb between; <br>They view the epic plot, from beginning <br>To end spectators of every scene, <br>Where I glimpse one held pose, knowing nothing <br>Of the unfolding. I do not envy<br>The rough pale scales their immortality; <br>Only their witness of the great story.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mark+Sauer">Mark Sauer</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=551525" data-title="Envying the Lichen de Mark Sauer" data-description="The gnawing lichen dissolve the mountains In leisured nibbles of eternity. When they rise at last from their long repast, Who will have noticed the flicker of me? Brief was I here, in my frozen moment, Reveling in my tiny piece of now, Bounded..."></div> </div> </div>

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