<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343663" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Before Dawn</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life! Austere arbiter of each man's fate, <br>By whom he learns that Nature's steadfast laws <br>Are as decrees immutable; O pause <br>Your even forward march! Not yet too late <br>Teach me the needed lesson, when to wait <br>Inactive as a ship when no wind draws <br>To stretch the loosened cordage. One implores <br>Thy clemency, whose wilfulness innate <br>Has gone uncurbed and roughshod while the years <br>Have lengthened into decades; now distressed <br>He knows no rule by which to move or stay, <br>And teased with restlessness and desperate fears <br>He dares not watch in silence thy wise way <br>Bringing about results none could have guessed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Amy+Lowell">Amy Lowell</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=343663" data-title="Before Dawn de Amy Lowell" data-description="Life! Austere arbiter of each man's fate, By whom he learns that Nature's steadfast laws Are as decrees immutable; O pause Your even forward march! Not yet too late Teach me the needed lesson, when to wait Inactive as a ship when no wind draw..."></div> </div> </div>

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