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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343939" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ambition and Art</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ambition <br>I am the maid of the lustrous eyes <br>Of great fruition, <br>Whom the sons of men that are over-wise <br>Have called Ambition. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the world's success is the only goal <br>I have within me; <br>The meanest man with the smallest soul <br>May woo and win me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the lust of power and the pride of place <br>To all I proffer. <br>Wilt thou take thy part in the crowded race <br>For what I offer? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The choice is thine, and the world is wide -- <br>Thy path is lonely. <br>I may not lead and I may not guide -- <br>I urge thee only. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am just a whip and a spur that smites <br>To fierce endeavour. <br>In the restless days and the sleepless nights <br>I urge thee ever. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou shalt wake from sleep with a startled cry, <br>In fright unleaping <br>At a rival's step as it passes by <br>Whilst thou art sleeping. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Honour and truth shall be overthrown <br>In fierce desire; <br>Thou shalt use thy friend as a stepping-stone <br>To mount thee higher. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the curtain falls on the sordid strife <br>That seemed so splendid, <br>Thou shalt look with pain on the wasted life <br>That thou hast ended. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou hast sold thy life for a guerdon small <br>In fitful flashes; <br>There has been reward -- but the end of all <br>Is dust and ashes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the night has come and it brings to naught <br>Thy projects cherished, <br>And thine epitaph shall in brass be wrought -- <br>&quot;He lived, and perished.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Art <br>I wait for thee at the outer gate, <br>My love, mine only; <br>Wherefore tarriest thou so late <br>While I am lonely? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou shalt seek my side with a footstep swift; <br>In thee implanted <br>Is the love of Art and the greatest gift <br>That God has granted. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the world's concerns with its rights and wrongs <br>Shall seem but small things -- <br>Poet or painter, or singer of songs, <br>Thine art is all things. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the wine of life is a woman's love <br>To keep beside thee; <br>But the love of Art is a thing above -- <br>A star to guide thee. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As the years go by with the love of Art <br>All undiminished, <br>Thou shalt end thy days with a quiet geart -- <br>Thy work is finished. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So the painter fashions a picture strong <br>That fadeth never, <br>And the singer singeth a wondrous song <br>That lives for ever.</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>
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I am the maid of the lustrous eyes 
Of great fruition, 
Whom the sons of men that are over-wise 
Have called Ambition. 

And the world's success is the only goal 
I have within me; 
The meanest man with the smallest soul 
May woo and win..."></div>
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