<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350409" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Golden Bells</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I was almost forty</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had a daughter whose name was Golden Bells.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now it is just a year since she was born;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She is learning to sit and cannot yet talk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ashamed—to find that I have not a sage’s heart:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Henceforward I am tied to things outside myself:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My only reward—the pleasure I am getting now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I am spared the grief of her dying young,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then I shall have the trouble of getting her married.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My plan for retiring and going back to the hills</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Must now be postponed for fifteen years!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bai+Juyi">Bai Juyi</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=350409" data-title="Golden Bells de Bai Juyi" data-description="When I was almost forty I had a daughter whose name was Golden Bells. Now it is just a year since she was born; She is learning to sit and cannot yet talk. Ashamed—to find that I have not a sage’s heart: Henceforward I am tied to things..."></div> </div> </div>

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