<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589771" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Being a lad I used to roam the wood [Fiind băiet păduri cutreieram]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Being a lad, I used to roam the wood,<br>Beside the spring I often slept awhile<br>With my right hand beneath my head I stood<br>To hear the water, to relax and smile;<br>A gentle rustle made me feel so good<br>And a sweet smell surrounded me with guile. <br>How many nights I spent alone and free<br>Listening the waves that seemed to talk to me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The moon above is shining to my face<br>I see the Heaven with my weary eyes,<br>A silver mist is filling all the space,<br>Flames over water, flashes in the skies,<br>A horn is playing in a secret place<br>The sound gets closer and then slowly dies...<br>On withered leaves and through the tall, wet grass<br>I think I hear the stags that gently pass. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lime tree opens wide or so it seems<br>A lovely queen steps out of it, so frail,<br>My eyes were full of tears and full of dreams<br>Her forehead covered by a dense, white veil<br>Her mouth was closed, her pupils threw light beams;<br>And walked as if asleep along the trail.<br>Touching the ground like fairies from above,<br>She slowly came and looked at me with love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, God, she was so nice, her nose was thin<br>And only once in life a girl like this,<br>A gentle angel with a shining skin,<br>May come on Earth to offer me such bliss;<br>Her hair was blonde and fastened with a pin<br>Her neck and shoulders waited for a kiss.<br>And through the fancy clothes, in the dim light,<br>Her wondrous body looked completely white.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mihai+Eminescu">Mihai Eminescu</a>, translated by Octavian Cocoş<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=589771" data-title="Being a lad I used to roam the wood [Fiind băiet păduri cutreieram] de Mihai Eminescu" data-description="Being a lad, I used to roam the wood,/Beside the spring I often slept awhile/With my right hand beneath my head I stood/To hear the water, to relax and smile;/A gentle rustle made me feel so good/And a sweet smell surrounded me with guile. /How ma..."></div> </div> </div>

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