<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343934" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Song of the Pen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not for the love of women toil we, we of the craft, <br>Not for the people's praise; <br>Only because our goddess made us her own and laughed, <br>Claiming us all our days, <br>Claiming our best endeavour -- body and heart and brain <br>Given with no reserve -- <br>Niggard is she towards us, granting us little gain: <br>Still, we are proud to serve. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not unto us is given choice of the tasks we try, <br>Gathering grain or chaff; <br>One of her favoured servants toils at an epic high, <br>One, that a child may laugh. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet if we serve her truly in our appointed place, <br>Freely she doth accord <br>Unto her faithful servants always this saving grace, <br>Work is its own reward! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Barton+Paterson">Andrew Barton Paterson</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=343934" data-title="A Song of the Pen de Andrew Barton Paterson" data-description="Not for the love of women toil we, we of the craft, Not for the people's praise; Only because our goddess made us her own and laughed, Claiming us all our days, Claiming our best endeavour -- body and heart and brain Given with no reserve -- ..."></div> </div> </div>

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