<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371127" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: After Death</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A dead person never requires praise, <br>Nor does rebuking help to change his ways; <br>What if he wins or loses any case? <br>His earthly tenure, none can ev’r efface. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The soul that’s dead needs no awards/rewards, <br>Or posthumous citations, or birthdays; <br>What does it matter if they be kings/ bards? <br>No monument, his achievements repays. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And statues, paintings too will not suffice, <br>To glorify his works or laud great souls; <br>Just prayers for the dead souls will be wise, <br>And pleas to God to save souls from hell’s coals.<br> <br>Death is a full-stop to our life’s sentence! <br>Where use we must, our sense and common sense. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> 9-12-2002</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</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=371127" data-title="Sonnet: After Death de John Celes" data-description="A dead person never requires praise, Nor does rebuking help to change his ways; What if he wins or loses any case? His earthly tenure, none can ev’r efface. The soul that’s dead needs no awards/rewards, Or posthumous citations, or birthd..."></div> </div> </div>

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