<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=572622" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Smoke, Mist and Nebulous Things</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tell me then your perceptions of the past<br>Tell me why hard facts are hard today<br>Facts tomorrow, then gone away<br>Do facts, then, rarely last? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Watching the march of time, the artefacts<br>The ruins they continue to dig up day by day<br>What remains of those wonderful beings<br>Who peopled our fables and myths<br>Smoke, mist and other nebulous things<br>Spirited them away</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tiptoe in history’s corridors<br>Crowns, coins and chariots<br>People, peasants, and simple folk<br>Just spirited clean away<br>Where do they lie now? <br>Unknowns jostling in history’s corridors.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Queens, courtesans, mothers of kings <br>Toys and things, necklaces and dreams<br>Smoke, mist and other nebulous things<br>Spirited them away<br>Tiptoe in history’s corridors<br>The modified history of the world<br>Domination, nomination, abomination</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Smoke and mist and nebulous things<br>Have spirited everyone away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rani+Turton">Rani Turton</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=572622" data-title="Smoke, Mist and Nebulous Things de Rani Turton" data-description="Tell me then your perceptions of the past Tell me why hard facts are hard today Facts tomorrow, then gone away Do facts, then, rarely last? Watching the march of time, the artefacts The ruins they continue to dig up day by day What remains of th..."></div> </div> </div>

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