<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116432" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mutation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They talk of short-lived pleasure - be it so -<br>Pain dies as quickly; stern, hard-featured pain<br>Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go.<br>The fiercest agonies have shortest reign;<br>And after dreams of horror, comes again<br>The welcome morning with its rays of peace.<br>Oblivion, softly wiping out the stain,<br>Makes the strong secret pangs of pain to cease:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase<br>Are fruits of innocence and blessedness;<br>Thus joy, o'erborne and bound, doth still release<br>His young limbs from the chains that round him press.<br>Weep not that the world changes - did it keep<br>A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cullen+Bryant">William Cullen Bryant</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=116432" data-title="Mutation de William Cullen Bryant" data-description="They talk of short-lived pleasure - be it so -/Pain dies as quickly; stern, hard-featured pain/Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go./The fiercest agonies have shortest reign;/And after dreams of horror, comes again/The welcome morning with its ..."></div> </div> </div>

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