<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=119290" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Edmund Clarence Stedman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life laid upon his forehead a caress,<br>And, smiling, gave him for his birthright dower,<br>Humor and judgment, passion, purpose, power,<br>And gifts of vision, pure and limitless:<br>Then—for she ever tempers man's success,<br>Nursing the canker in Earth's fairest flower—<br>She added pain; and taught him, hour by hour,<br>To know that only blessed which doth bless!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, following the Gleam from early youth,<br>He lent a strengthening hand, and gave his heart,<br>And aided feet, less sure than his, to climb:<br>He sacrificed not others to his art,<br>But worshiped beauty with unselfish truth,<br>And lives, the well-beloved of his time!</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>Mine and Thine</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=119290" data-title="Edmund Clarence Stedman de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="Life laid upon his forehead a caress,/And, smiling, gave him for his birthright dower,/Humor and judgment, passion, purpose, power,/And gifts of vision, pure and limitless:/Then—for she ever tempers man's success,/Nursing the canker in Earth's f..."></div> </div> </div>

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