<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118442" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Probation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Full slow to part with her best gifts is Fate;<br>The choicest fruitage comes not with the spring,<br>But still for summer's mellowing touch must wait,—<br>For storms and tears, which season'd excellence<br> bring;<br>And Love doth fix his joyfullest estate<br>In hearts that have been hushed 'neath Sorrow's<br> brooding wing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Youth sues to Fame: coldly she answers, "Toil!"<br>He sighs for Nature's treasures: with reserve<br>Responds the goddess, "Woo them from the soil."<br>Then fervently he cries, "Thee will I serve,—<br>Thee only, blissful Love!" With proud recoil<br>The heavenly boy replies, "To serve me well,<br> deserve!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Florence+Earle+Coates">Florence Earle Coates</a> from <i>Poems</i><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=118442" data-title="Probation de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="Full slow to part with her best gifts is Fate;/The choicest fruitage comes not with the spring,/But still for summer's mellowing touch must wait,—/For storms and tears, which season'd excellence/ bring;/And Love doth fix his joyfullest estate/I..."></div> </div> </div>

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