<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589867" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fading images [Icoane şterse]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm at the window in a pensive mood,<br>The setting sun intently I behold,<br>Above it there's a cloud with gray imbued<br>Whose rims are stitched with rubies and with gold. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The blue of heaven there is in decline;<br>Queer shapes the cloud in silence does produce...<br>I'd fix them in the rhythm of a line!<br>But they're short-lived... Now, turn into a deuce,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wrapped up in vestments made of silver ore,<br>Which stands and holds in hand a banner fair. <br>Now, it's a bear, but, lo, has changed once more,,,<br>Looks like a priest with tangled burning hair. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see how lifts his arms above the chest,<br>But those malicious flames are all around,<br>A cloud of dust is rising in the west<br>And gloomy shadows stretch upon the ground. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The holy peace at dusk begins to grow,<br>How sad the torches glow up in the sky!<br>And how the moments of my life do flow,<br>As cold as ice and desolate and dry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alexandru+Vlahu%C5%A3%C4%83">Alexandru Vlahuţă</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=589867" data-title="Fading images [Icoane şterse] de Alexandru Vlahuţă" data-description="I'm at the window in a pensive mood,/The setting sun intently I behold,/Above it there's a cloud with gray imbued/Whose rims are stitched with rubies and with gold. /The blue of heaven there is in decline;/Queer shapes the cloud in silence does pr..."></div> </div> </div>

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