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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360754" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnets XCII: XCIII: The Sun's Shame</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I<br>Beholding youth and hope in mockery caught<br>From life; and mocking pulses that remain<br>When the soul's death of bodily death is fain;<br>Honour unknown, and honour known unsought;<br>And penury's sedulous self-torturing thought<br>On gold, whose master therewith buys his bane;<br>And longed-for woman longing all in vain<br>For lonely man with love's desire distraught;<br>And wealth, and strength, and power, and pleasantness,<br>Given unto bodies of whose souls men say,<br>None poor and weak, slavish and foul, as they:—<br>Beholding these things, I behold no less<br>The blushing morn and blushing eve confess<br>The shame that loads the intolerable day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II<br>As some true chief of men, bowed down with stress<br>Of life's disastrous eld, on blossoming youth<br>May gaze, and murmur with self-pity and ruth,—<br>“Might I thy fruitless treasure but possess,<br>Such blessing of mine all coming years should bless;”—<br>Then sends one sigh forth to the unknown goal,<br>And bitterly feels breathe against his soul<br>The hour swift-winged of nearer nothingness:—<br>Even so the World's grey Soul to the green World<br>Perchance one hour must cry: “Woe's me, for whom<br>Inveteracy of ill portends the doom,—<br>Whose heart's old fire in shadow of shame is furl'd:<br>While thou even as of yore art journeying,<br>All soulless now, yet merry with the Spring!”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dante+Gabriel+Rossetti">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</a><div class=q>
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Beholding youth and hope in mockery caught
From life; and mocking pulses that remain
When the soul's death of bodily death is fain;
Honour unknown, and honour known unsought;
And penury's sedulous self-torturing thought
On gold, whose master the..."></div>
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