<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342032" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Monotones</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because there is but one truth;<br> Because there is but one banner;<br> Because there is but one light;<br>Because we have with us our youth<br> Once, and one chance and one manner<br> Of service, and then the night;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because we have found not yet<br> Any way for the world to follow<br> Save only that ancient way;<br>Whosoever forsake or forget,<br> Whose faith soever be hollow,<br> Whose hope soever grow grey;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because of the watchwords of kings<br> That are many and strange and unwritten,<br> Diverse, and our watchword is one;<br>Therefore, though seven be the strings,<br> One string, if the harp be smitten,<br> Sole sounds, till the tune be done;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sounds without cadence or change<br> In a weary monotonous burden,<br> Be the keynote of mourning or mirth;<br>Free, but free not to range;<br> Taking for crown and for guerdon<br> No man's praise upon earth;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Saying one sole word evermore,<br> In the ears of the charmed world saying,<br> Charmed by spells to its death;<br>One that chanted of yore<br> To a tune of the sword-sweep's playing<br> In the lips of the dead blew breath;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Therefore I set not mine hand<br> To the shifting of changed modulations,<br> To the smiting of manifold strings;<br>While the thrones of the throned men stand,<br> One song for the morning of nations,<br> One for the twilight of kings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One chord, one word, and one way,<br> One hope as our law, one heaven,<br> Till slain be the great one wrong;<br>Till the people it could not slay,<br> Risen up, have for one star seven,<br> For a single, a sevenfold song.</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=342032" data-title="Monotones de Algernon Charles Swinburne" data-description="Because there is but one truth; Because there is but one banner; Because there is but one light; Because we have with us our youth Once, and one chance and one manner Of service, and then the night; Because we have found not yet Any way for ..."></div> </div> </div>

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