<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118313" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cold Comfort</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Say, will it, when our hairs are grey,<br>And wintry suns half light the day,<br>Which cheering hope and strengthening trust<br>Have left, departed, turned to dust,<br>Say, will it soothe lone years to extract<br>From fitful shows with sense exact<br>Their sad residuum, small, of fact?<br>Will trembling nerves their solace find<br>In plain conclusions of the mind?<br>Or errant fancies fond, that still<br>To fretful motions prompt the will,<br>Repose upon effect and cause,<br>And action of unvarying laws,<br>And human life’s familiar doom,<br>And on the all-concluding tomb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or were it to our kind and race,<br>And our instructed selves, disgrace<br>To wander then once more in you,<br>Green fields, beneath the pleasant blue;<br>To dream as we were used to dream,<br>And let things be whate’er they seem?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O feeble shapes of beggars grey<br>That, tottering on the public way,<br>Die out in doting, dim decay,<br>Is it to you when all is past<br>Our would-be wisdom turns at last?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Hugh+Clough">Arthur Hugh Clough</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=118313" data-title="Cold Comfort de Arthur Hugh Clough" data-description="Say, will it, when our hairs are grey,/And wintry suns half light the day,/Which cheering hope and strengthening trust/Have left, departed, turned to dust,/Say, will it soothe lone years to extract/From fitful shows with sense exact/Their sad resi..."></div> </div> </div>

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