<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=352695" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Change</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I used to glorify the poor,<br>Not simply lofty views expressing:<br>Their lives alone, I felt, were true,<br>Devoid of pomp and window-dressing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No stranger to the manor house,<br>Its finery and lordly tenor,<br>I was a friend of down-and-outs,<br>And shunned the idly sponging manner.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For choosing friendship in the ranks<br>Of working people, though no rebel,<br>I had the honour to be stamped<br>As also one among the rabble.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The state of basements, unadorned,<br>Of attics with no frills or curtains<br>Was tangible without pretence<br>And full of substance, weighty, certain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I went bad when rot defaced<br>Our time, and life became infested,<br>When grief was censured as disgrace<br>And all played optimists and yes-men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My faith in those who seemed my friends<br>Was broken and our ties were sundered.<br>I, too, lost Man, the Human, since<br>He had been lost by all and sundry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Boris+Pasternak">Boris Pasternak</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=352695" data-title="Change de Boris Pasternak" data-description="I used to glorify the poor, Not simply lofty views expressing: Their lives alone, I felt, were true, Devoid of pomp and window-dressing. No stranger to the manor house, Its finery and lordly tenor, I was a friend of down-and-outs, And shunned the..."></div> </div> </div>

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