<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=339744" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Contentment</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it a virtue, as the sages say,<br>The 'trivial round and common task' to ply,<br>And for no wider walk of life to sigh<br>Than we were born to; sweetly, day by day,<br>Our meed of lowly reverence to pay<br>Our high-placed 'betters'; never to defy<br>The powers that be; never to kick or cry,<br>Or think, or question - simply to obey?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then vice be with us, although blood be shed.<br>No pact with powers partizan and blind;<br>No peace with Custom that makes right of wrong.<br>We shall content us when the starved are fed,<br>When men and brothers are agreed and kind,<br>And there is fair play between weak and strong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ada+Cambridge">Ada Cambridge</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=339744" data-title="Contentment de Ada Cambridge" data-description="Is it a virtue, as the sages say, The 'trivial round and common task' to ply, And for no wider walk of life to sigh Than we were born to; sweetly, day by day, Our meed of lowly reverence to pay Our high-placed 'betters'; never to defy The powers t..."></div> </div> </div>

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