wildwanderingirl on "Having a problem with blockquotes..."

wildwanderingirl — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:03:20 +0000

Can't work out why, maybe it's because I made up this post a little differently than I usually do (but I am pleased with the results). I can't seem to get a blockquote to show at the top, here. I tend to be blockquote-happy but this

never happens.

I will paste in the entire text here, which includes the invisible quote playing hide-and-seek. I'd give the url for this post but it's scheduled for later this month... :)

If you would be happy for a lifetime, grow Chrysanthemums. 

~ Chinese proverb

                                                    


The Last Chrysanthemum

Why should this flower delay so long
To show its tremulous plumes?
Now is the time of plaintive robin-song,
When flowers are in their tombs.

Through the slow summer, when the sun
Called to each frond and whorl
That all he could for flowers was being done,
Why did it not uncurl?

It must have felt that fervid call
Although it took no heed,
Waking but now, when leaves like corpses fall,
And saps all retrocede.

Too late its beauty, lonely thing,
The season's shine is spent,
Nothing remains for it but shivering
In tempests turbulent.

Had it a reason for delay,
Dreaming in witlessness
That for a bloom so delicately gay
Winter would stay its stress?

 I talk as if the thing were born
With sense to work its mind;
Yet it is but one mask of many worn
By the Great Face behind.

~ Thomas Hardy

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