<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341317" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Tusculan Question</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">One day as on an ass I rode,<br>By many a twisting gully,<br>To where once stood the famed abode<br>Of philosophic Tully,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A shepherd lad with hat aslouch<br>Was singing to his flock O;<br>I pulled my money from my pouch,<br>And chucked him a baiocco.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A moment gone, and with his psalm<br>The hills and woods were ringing;<br>But when the copper touched his palm,<br>Sudden he ceased his singing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! like to bees that cease to hum,<br>When pressing on for honey,<br>So doth the singing soul grow dumb,<br>Intent on clogging money.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kind Heaven! forbid that ever I<br>Should sink in golden torpor!<br>If, living, I may sing, I'll die<br>Contentedly a pauper.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Austin">Alfred Austin</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=341317" data-title="A Tusculan Question de Alfred Austin" data-description="One day as on an ass I rode, By many a twisting gully, To where once stood the famed abode Of philosophic Tully, A shepherd lad with hat aslouch Was singing to his flock O; I pulled my money from my pouch, And chucked him a baiocco. A moment gon..."></div> </div> </div>

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