<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357461" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Birthday Honours</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My natal day was yesterday;<br>And so I said to Fate,<br>'What gifts bring you, by one, by two,<br>To ease my parlous state?'<br>'I proffer blindly,' Fate replied,<br>From chance-found joys and ills.<br>For you, the 'flu; and this beside,<br>A sheaf of monthly bills.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My natal day was yesterday;<br>And so I said to Chance,<br>'What gifts bring you, by one, by two,<br>My fortunes to enhance?'<br>Said Chance, 'I bring no obvious thing.<br>Unguessed escape bring I<br>From dangers rife alway in life<br>That closely pass you by.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My natal day was yesterday;<br>And so I said to Life,<br>'What gifts bring you, by one, by two,<br>To salve me in the strife?'<br>But Life said, 'Nought. Long since I brought<br>My gifts, glum misanthrope;<br>And these for you I here renew;<br>Myself and human hope.'</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=357461" data-title="Birthday Honours de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="My natal day was yesterday; And so I said to Fate, 'What gifts bring you, by one, by two, To ease my parlous state?' 'I proffer blindly,' Fate replied, From chance-found joys and ills. For you, the 'flu; and this beside, A sheaf of monthly bills.'..."></div> </div> </div>

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