<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365848" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Short Shrift</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘I’ve failed! ’ How many times have sons <br>And fathers’ fathers echoed me? <br>‘I’ve failed! My life was spent in dreams, ’ <br>We said, ‘in shallow misery. <br>In dreams and steel and soot and grime, <br>In screams, and what would seem some crime <br>Of trying to live beyond our need... <br>Our lives were spent in some black creed! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Too short, too short, the days we spent<br>In trying to right the days before, <br>Too long, too long, the years we struggled<br>Knowing not what struggled for.<br>What goal, what aim, what discontent, <br>What loves we lost, what life we spent<br>In wondering what such life could be? <br>Short shrift for you - harsh words for me! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘I’ve failed, my sons, I’ve failed you all<br>And so my failure tortures me, <br>As in that innocence divine<br>Your love loves all the failed in me.<br>If I could strip this flesh, or tear<br>These eyes that cried hot fire for you<br>To save you from the same despair<br>My father’s father brought me to...’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">20 July 1976</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=365848" data-title="Short Shrift de David Lewis Paget" data-description="‘I’ve failed! ’ How many times have sons And fathers’ fathers echoed me? ‘I’ve failed! My life was spent in dreams, ’ We said, ‘in shallow misery. In dreams and steel and soot and grime, In screams, and what would seem some cr..."></div> </div> </div>

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