<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Dialogue</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I<br>DEATH, if thou wilt, fain would I plead with thee:<br>Canst thou not spare, of all our hopes have built,<br>One shelter where our spirits fain would be,<br> Death, if thou wit?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No dome with suns and dews impearled and gilt,<br>Imperial: but some roof of wildwood tree,<br>Too mean for sceptre's heft or swordblade's hilt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some low sweet roof where love might live, set free<br>From change and fear and dreams of grief or guilt;<br>Canst thou not leave life even thus much to see,<br> Death, if thou wilt?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> II<br>Man, what art thou to speak and plead with me?<br>What knowest thou of my workings, where and how<br>What things I fashion? Nay, behold and see,<br> Man, what art thou?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy fruits of life, and blossoms of thy bough,<br>What are they but my seedlings? Earth and sea<br>Bear nought but when I breathe on it must bow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bow thou too down before me: though thou be<br>Great, all the pride shall fade from off thy brow,<br>When Time and strong Oblivion ask of thee,<br> Man, what art thou ?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> III<br>Death, if thou be or be not, as was said,<br>Immortal; if thou make us nought, or we<br>Survive: thy power is made but of our dread,<br> Death, if thou be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy might is made out of our fear of thee:<br>Who fears thee not, hath plucked from off thine head<br>The crown of cloud that darkens earth and sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Earth, sea, and sky, as rain or vapour shed,<br>Shall vanish; all the shows of them shall flee:<br>Then shall we know full surely, quick or dead,<br> Death, if thou be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Algernon+Charles+Swinburne">Algernon Charles Swinburne</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=341906" data-title="A Dialogue de Algernon Charles Swinburne" data-description="I DEATH, if thou wilt, fain would I plead with thee: Canst thou not spare, of all our hopes have built, One shelter where our spirits fain would be, Death, if thou wit? No dome with suns and dews impearled and gilt, Imperial: but some roof of wi..."></div> </div> </div>

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