<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577427" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Mystic And The Realist</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">in his poem 'To the Cuckoo' Wordsworth described the bird as a mysterious thing<br>As if a bird's voice without a bird out of nowhere did sing<br>As he told he searched for the bird on bush and sky and tree<br>And yet that voice to him remained as a great mystery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">John Clare the poet from Helpston where he lived when he was young<br>Once got so close to the cuckoo that he even see her tongue<br>A leading student of Nature's ways Nature he did not mystify<br>He never told of searching for a mysterious bird in bush and tree and sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor John Clare had a mental illness by life he was given a raw deal<br>But he did see Nature for what she is he see Nature as real<br>The birds and animals that lived around him he intimately knew<br>And to the reality of Nature till death he remained true.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Mystic and the Realist they see things differently<br>What was a real bird to one to the other was a mystery<br>What makes us all interesting is that we are more different even than we realize<br>And we see the World around us through very different eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</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=577427" data-title="The Mystic And The Realist de Francis Duggan" data-description="in his poem 'To the Cuckoo' Wordsworth described the bird as a mysterious thing As if a bird's voice without a bird out of nowhere did sing As he told he searched for the bird on bush and sky and tree And yet that voice to him remained as a great ..."></div> </div> </div>

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