<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365811" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>One by One...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I should disappear one sudden night, <br>Escape, take flight, cast off my chains<br>And venture out one final time<br>Into the darkening light, <br>To leave this sinking hulk behind<br>Mired fast in weeds, and shallow deeds<br>That never now may be undone; <br>Take heed, I pray, who loved me once –<br>Death takes us, one by one! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If once you speak, but never get reply, <br>Though my eyes stare, not having said goodbye<br>When all that moved me, once, has gone<br>To join in common history the fate of everyman…<br>Don’t cry for me, for I am well content; <br>A life, lived, loved, and now made more complete<br>By ending thus, as everything must end.<br>No – save your tears for those I leave behind, <br>Grief is for the living, not the dead and blind! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if you need some final words from me<br>To give you hope, some ultimate destiny, <br>As each one passes from this mortal stage, I say<br>‘Have faith! ’ - as you, too, approach the end of days.<br>Be calm, accept, and we shall all be saved, <br>Just as the servant, taking back the keys of life<br>Confronts the Master he has served, in every faith, <br>And hears the words: ‘My son, you’ve done us proud! ’<br>Gives back the key, and takes from him the shroud.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">5 June 2005</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</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=365811" data-title="One by One... de David Lewis Paget" data-description="If I should disappear one sudden night, Escape, take flight, cast off my chains And venture out one final time Into the darkening light, To leave this sinking hulk behind Mired fast in weeds, and shallow deeds That never now may be undone; Take..."></div> </div> </div>

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