<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371978" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: The River</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Without the River-water, can men live? <br>It satisfies man's thirst and helps crops grow; <br>To keep it pure for long, let man thought give; <br>Alas! 'Tis polluted in ways galore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Carcasses, corpses, stay afloat on it; <br>Men bathe their body's dirt and empty sins: <br>Their 'sacred-ashes' are immersed by bit; <br>They wash their dirty linen and then rinse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But why allow effluents to pollute? <br>Dead flora and fauna and excrement; <br>The River bears the ignominy brute, <br>It floods or dries in weather inclement.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> 0 sacred River, bear with men insane, <br> Who ages still profane thee without gain.</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=371978" data-title="Sonnet: The River de John Celes" data-description="Without the River-water, can men live? It satisfies man's thirst and helps crops grow; To keep it pure for long, let man thought give; Alas! 'Tis polluted in ways galore. Carcasses, corpses, stay afloat on it; Men bathe their body's dirt and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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