<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343014" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To A Dejected Poet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy gift, if that it be of God,<br>Thou hast no warrant to appraise,<br>Nor say: 'Here part, O Muse, our ways,<br>The road too stony to be trod.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not thine to call the labor hard<br>And the reward inadequate.<br>Who haggles o'er his hire with Fate<br>Is better bargainer than bard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What! count the effort labor lost<br>When thy good angel holds the reed?<br>It were a sorry thing indeed<br>To stay him till thy palm be crossed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The laborer is worthy'-nay,<br>The sacred ministry of song<br>Is rapture!-'t were a grievous wrong<br>To fix a wages-rate for play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</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=343014" data-title="To A Dejected Poet de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="Thy gift, if that it be of God, Thou hast no warrant to appraise, Nor say: 'Here part, O Muse, our ways, The road too stony to be trod.' Not thine to call the labor hard And the reward inadequate. Who haggles o'er his hire with Fate Is better bar..."></div> </div> </div>

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