<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=339870" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Potters' Clay</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though the pitcher that goes to the sparkling rill<br>Too oft gets broken at last,<br>There are scores of others its place to fill<br>When its earth to the earth is cast ;<br>Keep that pitcher at home, let it never roam,<br>But lie like a useless clod,<br>Yet sooner or later the hour will come<br>When its chips are thrown to the sod.<br> <br>Is it wise, then, say, in the waning day,<br>When the vessel is crack'd and old,<br>To cherish the battered potter's clay,<br>As though it were virgin gold ?<br>Take care of yourself, dull, boorish elf,<br>Though prudent and safe you seem,<br>Your pitcher will break on the musty shelf,<br>And mine by the dazzling stream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Adam+Lindsay+Gordon">Adam Lindsay Gordon</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=339870" data-title="Potters' Clay de Adam Lindsay Gordon" data-description="Though the pitcher that goes to the sparkling rill Too oft gets broken at last, There are scores of others its place to fill When its earth to the earth is cast ; Keep that pitcher at home, let it never roam, But lie like a useless clod, Yet soone..."></div> </div> </div>

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