<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371960" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: The Old Well</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The well that had given water to drink <br>For years and quenched the thirst of travelers; <br>With whose water, they’d bathed the beasts which stink, <br>Which flowed into the fields ‘yond for farmers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The well that served for centuries thus, <br>Men and beasts and fields, not knowing their caste; <br>And continued to give water to us, <br>Perennially that was so sweet to taste. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The well of our ancestors, no more used, <br>Lies in ruins now and is very deep; <br>The corpse was found of a young man who ‘as killed! <br>Thrown into the well and made people weep. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The well that had given sweet water to drink, <br>It has now snakes, stones, garbage, corpses that stink.</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=371960" data-title="Sonnet: The Old Well de John Celes" data-description="The well that had given water to drink For years and quenched the thirst of travelers; With whose water, they’d bathed the beasts which stink, Which flowed into the fields ‘yond for farmers. The well that served for centuries thus, Men a..."></div> </div> </div>

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