<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358445" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Apology</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If men should ask, Despoina, why I tell<br>Of nothing glad nor noble in my verse<br>To lighten hearts beneath this present curse<br>And build a heaven of dreams in real hell,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Go you to them and speak among them thus:<br>“There were no greater grief than to recall,<br>Down in the rotting grave where the lithe worms crawl,<br>Green fields above that smiled so sweet to us.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it good to tell old tales of Troynovant<br>Or praises of dead heroes, tried and sage,<br>Or sing the queens of unforgotten age,<br>Brynhild and Maeve and virgin Bradamant?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How should I sing of them? Can it be good<br>To think of glory now, when all is done,<br>And all our labour underneath the sun<br>Has brought us this-and not the thing we would?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All these were rosy visions of the night,<br>The loveliness and wisdom feigned of old.<br>But now we wake. The East is pale and cold,<br>No hope is in the dawn, and no delight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clive+Staples+Lewis">Clive Staples Lewis</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=358445" data-title="Apology de Clive Staples Lewis" data-description="If men should ask, Despoina, why I tell Of nothing glad nor noble in my verse To lighten hearts beneath this present curse And build a heaven of dreams in real hell, Go you to them and speak among them thus: “There were no greater grief than to..."></div> </div> </div>

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