<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348535" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Of Taking things Easy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">TELL me what boots to battle, when the end <br> Is foreseen failure? What, by heaven, I ask— <br> By bearded martyrs, and the holy cask <br>Of papal comfort, what can struggle lend <br>Of true nobility to those who bend <br> Constrainèd after all? ’Twere better bask <br> With resignation and a quiet flask <br>Than rush to strokes that heaven will surely send. <br> <br>Methinks the base desire to change our stars <br> Is but the taint of old mortality, <br> And as the wavelet curls in every sea <br>The schoolboy bares his wounds and thinks him Mars. <br> Give me Petrarca and a pot of tea, <br>And carry thou thy honourable scars. </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=Arthur+Maquarie">Arthur Maquarie</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=348535" data-title="Of Taking things Easy de Arthur Maquarie" data-description="TELL me what boots to battle, when the end Is foreseen failure? What, by heaven, I ask— By bearded martyrs, and the holy cask Of papal comfort, what can struggle lend Of true nobility to those who bend Constrainèd after all? ’Twere be..."></div> </div> </div>

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