<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358030" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To the Memory of Claude Marquet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because to him the wise gods gave<br>Rare gifts, to lesser folk denied,<br>He might have thriven, Mammon's slave,<br>Rich in the goods that small men crave,<br>But poor in all beside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet, because his was the pride<br>Possessed by earnest men and brave,<br>He stayed by his weak brothers' side<br>And there he fought, loved, laughed and died,<br>And went, loved, to his grave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because his was the simple heart<br>That found small lure in pelf or praise,<br>For greater ends he plied his art,<br>And, asking little, played his part<br>A rich man all his days.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The simple heart, the single aim<br>That guided e'er his ready pen,<br>The gay indifference to Fame <br>Things such as these shall leave a name<br>Cherished 'mid fellow men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we who knew that steady gaze,<br>The open hand, the ready laugh,<br>The fighting face and kindly ways,<br>Know, too, his smiling scorn of praise.<br>Yet this for epitaph:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A fighter all his days was he,<br>Yet, dying, left no enemy.</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=358030" data-title="To the Memory of Claude Marquet de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Because to him the wise gods gave Rare gifts, to lesser folk denied, He might have thriven, Mammon's slave, Rich in the goods that small men crave, But poor in all beside. And yet, because his was the pride Possessed by earnest men and brave, He ..."></div> </div> </div>

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