<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115089" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet VI</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What art thou, Life? The shadow of a dream:<br>The past and future dwell in thought alone;<br>The present, ere we note its flight, is gone;<br>And all ideal, vain, fantastick, seem.<br>Whence is thy source! And whither dost thou tend!<br>So short thy period, and thy form so frail;<br>Poor prisoner! pent in Death's surrounding vale,<br>Born but to breathe, to suffer, and to end.<br>Why, Shadow, bring'st thou on thy raven wing<br>Dark trains of grief, and visions of the night,<br>Rather than graces, robed in purple light,<br>Elysian flowers, and love's unclouded spring;<br>Since sad, or gay, whatever be thy theme,<br>Death surely ends at once the dreamer and the dream!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Brooke+Boothby">Brooke Boothby</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=115089" data-title="Sonnet VI de Brooke Boothby" data-description="What art thou, Life? The shadow of a dream:/The past and future dwell in thought alone;/The present, ere we note its flight, is gone;/And all ideal, vain, fantastick, seem./Whence is thy source! And whither dost thou tend!/So short thy period, and..."></div> </div> </div>

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