<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341513" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Why should I, from this long and losing strife</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why should I, from this long and losing strife<br>When summoned to depart, halt half-afraid?<br>Death is full quittance for the debts of life,<br>Discharging the account, though still unpaid.<br>Who is it that can say he still hath met<br>Friendship's just claim and Duty's punctual call?<br>How little do we give for what we get,<br>And but for Death we should be bankrupts all!<br>For loan of life the richest but compound,<br>Love's priceless gift we but repay in part;<br>Beggared and bare our balance would be found,<br>If all we owe were honoured by the heart.<br>Die, and the lenders our default forget,<br>Nay, though defrauded, then deem theirs the debt.</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=341513" data-title="Why should I, from this long and losing strife de Alfred Austin" data-description="Why should I, from this long and losing strife When summoned to depart, halt half-afraid? Death is full quittance for the debts of life, Discharging the account, though still unpaid. Who is it that can say he still hath met Friendship's just claim..."></div> </div> </div>

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