<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371255" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: Earthly Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’ve traveled more than half my road on earth; <br>Some more remains to be covered by me; <br>I’ve witnessed sorrows more than any mirth; <br>But on the whole, I’ve spent life usefully. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But what if life brought sorrows entirely! <br>Or life was full of joys without an end; <br>Neither of these, I would prefer truly; <br>The subtle mixture, I would recommend. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For, life’s monotony can kill the mind, <br>And dampen spirits, causing, umpteen ills; <br>The clock of life, none can ever rewind, <br>Producing tonsured, barren, naked hills.<br> <br>Life is wholesome when joys and woes combine; <br>Joys only call on us in life divine! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> 9-15-2002</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=371255" data-title="Sonnet: Earthly Life de John Celes" data-description="I’ve traveled more than half my road on earth; Some more remains to be covered by me; I’ve witnessed sorrows more than any mirth; But on the whole, I’ve spent life usefully. But what if life brought sorrows entirely! Or life was full o..."></div> </div> </div>

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