<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357365" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Duty Done - 1933</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A duty done ... What else was there to do?<br>A simple matter; and as simply solved.<br>His straight young mind worked straightly - worked as true<br>As ever youth's clean mind. Here no involved<br>And weighty pondering of faith or fact.<br>Duty demanded; and he leapt to act.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He leapt and died . . . Could he but tell it now,<br>There would, be sure, come no heroic tale.<br>'What else would any man do, any how?'<br>This thing cried to be done. How could he fail?<br>The cry; the danger; Duty's sudden call;<br>Then - well, a bit of bad luck. That was all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They say that youth grows cynical: too prone<br>To weigh advantage; thro' some modern plan<br>Changed from the clear-eyed youth old days had known:<br>More of a crafty huckster, less a man.<br>They say - and they are answered by one youth,<br>Proving again one wholesome human truth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A duty done; and valiantly done.<br>Tho' death came in the doing, yet, who knows<br>At what wise ordering? No living one<br>May say how kind death be to such as those <br>Youth, unjustified, triumphing on his way,<br>Quiet hero of this world of work-a-day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</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=357365" data-title="A Duty Done - 1933 de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="A duty done ... What else was there to do? A simple matter; and as simply solved. His straight young mind worked straightly - worked as true As ever youth's clean mind. Here no involved And weighty pondering of faith or fact. Duty demanded; and he..."></div> </div> </div>

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