<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118739" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Though Thou Hast Climbed</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though thou hast climbed, by patient effort slow,<br>O'er barriers that thy course denied,<br>And from proud summits gazest down below—<br>Self satisfied;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though thou hast felt the clouds beneath thy feet,<br>And to past triumphs fond returning,<br>Wakest no more, sublimer heights to greet<br>With upward yearning,—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Better for thee hadst thou been taught to bow,<br>Through lengthening years of blest probation,<br>Looking to something loftier than thou,<br>In adoration:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Better for thee had thine unconquered will,<br>So scornful of restraining bars—<br>Been held earth's captive thrall, thy strivings still<br>Unto the Stars!</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=118739" data-title="Though Thou Hast Climbed de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="Though thou hast climbed, by patient effort slow,/O'er barriers that thy course denied,/And from proud summits gazest down below—/Self satisfied;/Though thou hast felt the clouds beneath thy feet,/And to past triumphs fond returning,/Wakest no m..."></div> </div> </div>

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