<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371238" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: Dirge or Anthem?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The String of Life when God cuts premature, <br>For Bards young who had burnt their midnight-oil, <br>Angered I feel at God’s cruel nature, <br>Is this His earthly reward for their toil? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hit by disease and utter poverty, <br>In vain they’d struggled for mere existence; <br>Deserving though ne’er came prosperity; <br>They were given the earthly death-sentence! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why hast Thou been God, so cruel to them? <br>If only they were allowed to live long, <br>My Dirge should have been turned into Anthem; <br>This would have become my most joyous song. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But wait, perhaps thou didst do what was best; <br>Rebuke God not; He gives at times men test!</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=371238" data-title="Sonnet: Dirge or Anthem? de John Celes" data-description="The String of Life when God cuts premature, For Bards young who had burnt their midnight-oil, Angered I feel at God’s cruel nature, Is this His earthly reward for their toil? Hit by disease and utter poverty, In vain they’d struggled for..."></div> </div> </div>

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