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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=574496" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sweet Silent Sea-Waves Lapping By The Rocks</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweet silent sea-waves lapping by the rocks<br>That beneath the frowning bastions lie</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nature, the tricky one <br>Left the door ajar half-open half-closed<br>And none of them - yet leaving things in the middle: <br>And he<br>And he<br>Pondering<br>Pondering as not be foolish<br>Said to himself<br>There’s danger if I open the door too much<br>I do not know what I will let in: <br>Yet<br>Yet<br>The option beckoned: either close or open to full: <br>So he pondered again<br>This time being quicker, rasher<br>Decided for the line of least resistance<br>For the prudent path<br>Fear, tall impudent fear<br>Stood by him like a dubious angel<br>His counsel was not lost – it moved him<br>And so<br>He closed the door thinking he said<br>And making sure against ‘the unforseen’.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Courage had stood by him<br>But Fear won him smiling green<br>Into the face of Courage<br>Another soul was won to Fear <br>Another to Courage lost: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Courage went away bashfully.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fear sate him invisible by and by to watch.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So the drama quick unfolded: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he sank<br>He could not walk on water<br>Because Fear had won him<br>Because Courage had lost him: <br>And so<br>And so<br>He sate on a safe rock<br>And put his feet into the water like a child<br>To feel the cool sweet water rush<br>And press with sweetness round his ankles<br>But Fear, yellow fear won! <br>For even here: <br>The sands started to<br>‘Twas a slippery bank, a bank of treachery<br>And treacherous the sand sank<br>And fast the sand<br>Sank like down the time-glass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Fear seizing him<br>He was un resourceful to the full<br>His mind Fear had made blank<br>It was blank – worse<br>Than if Morpheus on touching it<br>Had exceeded his dose of opiate sleep; <br>He saw nothing<br>Except him sink<br>And sink: <br>And all around him crush<br>And all around him go: <br>And yet<br>He felt a pleasure in the ruin<br>A sweetness new not felt before<br>He felt: <br> <br>In sinking.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And so sinking<br>He still heard<br>The music of pleasantness<br>Ring in his ears<br>The sea was calm and wave-less<br>So no current churned<br>And linear and tall <br>He went down to the floor<br>The walls of water around him raged<br>The walls of water around him pressed<br>Like flames of wrath<br>Like flames of ruin Nero-like<br>When Nero burned his Rome<br>And staring stood<br>Stringing here and there a note<br>On his large funereal harp</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so<br>He touched the floor of the salt sea<br>Deep in and smiling in his ruin<br>At least pain had flown away<br>Fear had granted in recompense<br>A painless sinking: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as he fell<br>His eyes were open yet closed<br>And he<br>Could not recriminate himself<br>As to why<br>He simply could not open the door - it was so easy<br>So imperative: <br>Yet so he did not and he sank.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And thus engrossed<br>He thought himself alone<br>If he could think: <br>And could not see<br>A case like his a-sinking to the floor<br>Another coward Fear his victim made</div><div style="margin:10px 0">De te fabula!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Emmanuel+George+Cefai">Emmanuel George Cefai</a><div class=q>
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That beneath the frowning bastions lie

Nature, the tricky one 
Left the door ajar half-open half-closed
And none of them - yet leaving things in the middle: 
And he
And he
Pondering
Pondering as not be ..."></div>
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