<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365966" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Pen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘All curses on this pen, ’<br>I see you think, <br>This dark intruder that demands<br>Its pint of ink; <br>It leaves harsh trails and seeks to<br>Imitate the past, <br>Though never moves, <br>But leads the eye toward the glass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For as the trail goes out<br>From birth to death, <br>A black unbroken scrawl<br>To steal the breath, <br>It steals the art <br>Of conversation’s better side<br>While you look on<br>Like some poor, jilted bride, <br>Who has the well<br>(If I but had the ink) , <br>And dips me well<br>When I do cease to think.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">22 March 1982</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=365966" data-title="The Pen de David Lewis Paget" data-description="‘All curses on this pen, ’ I see you think, This dark intruder that demands Its pint of ink; It leaves harsh trails and seeks to Imitate the past, Though never moves, But leads the eye toward the glass. For as the trail goes out From birt..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black