<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366108" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When I Consider How my Days were Spent</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I consider how my days were spent<br>My aimless drift in hapless, cluttered years<br>The foolish choices wherein my pride was rent<br>I the butt of mockery and sneers; <br>I who was a marvel in my youth<br>The basking object of a dawning praise, <br>Soon learned that fame inspires abuse, <br>That lesser souls will seek to block your way; <br>I who sought to live as independent, <br>To use my brain to best life's game of chance, <br>Was proved in court an ill-prepared defendant, <br>Misled by misperceptions of romance; <br>Yet in the days I sense I have remaining, <br>Although my sun is shadowed in the west, <br>I strain to make my final hours sustaining: <br>My ripened love a story of success.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+McLansky">David McLansky</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=366108" data-title="When I Consider How my Days were Spent de David McLansky" data-description="When I consider how my days were spent My aimless drift in hapless, cluttered years The foolish choices wherein my pride was rent I the butt of mockery and sneers; I who was a marvel in my youth The basking object of a dawning praise, Soon learn..."></div> </div> </div>

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