<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344223" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballade Of Roulette</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This life--one was thinking to-day,<br>In the midst of a medley of fancies -<br>Is a game, and the board where we play<br>Green earth with her poppies and pansies.<br>Let manque be faded romances,<br>Be passe remorse and regret;<br>Hearts dance with the wheel as it dances -<br>The wheel of Dame Fortune's roulette.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lover will stake as he may<br>His heart on his Peggies and Nancies;<br>The girl has her beauty to lay;<br>The saint has his prayers and his trances;<br>The poet bets endless expanses<br>In Dreamland; the scamp has his debt:<br>How they gaze at the wheel as it glances -<br>The wheel of Dame Fortune's roulette!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Kaiser will stake his array<br>Of sabres, of Krupps, and of lances;<br>An Englishman punts with his pay,<br>And glory the jeton of France is;<br>Your artists, or Whistlers or Vances,<br>Have voices or colours to bet;<br>Will you moan that its motion askance is -<br>The wheel of Dame Fortune's roulette?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ENVOY.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The prize that the pleasure enhances?<br>The prize is--at last to forget<br>The changes, the chops, and the chances -<br>The wheel of Dame Fortune's roulette.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Lang">Andrew Lang</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=344223" data-title="Ballade Of Roulette de Andrew Lang" data-description="This life--one was thinking to-day, In the midst of a medley of fancies - Is a game, and the board where we play Green earth with her poppies and pansies. Let manque be faded romances, Be passe remorse and regret; Hearts dance with the wheel as it..."></div> </div> </div>

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