<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373710" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Abel Melveny</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I bought every kind of machine that's known --<br>Grinders, shellers, planters, mowers,<br>Mills and rakes and ploughs and threshers --<br>And all of them stood in the rain and sun,<br>Getting rusted, warped and battered,<br>For I had no sheds to store them in,<br>And no use for most of them.<br>And toward the last, when I thought it over,<br>There by my window, growing clearer<br>About myself, as my pulse slowed down,<br>And looked at one of the mills I bought --<br>Which I didn't have the slightest need of,<br>As things turned out, and I never ran --<br>A fine machine, once brightly varnished,<br>And eager to do its work,<br>Now with its paint washed off --<br>I saw myself as a good machine<br>That Life had never used.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Lee+Masters">Edgar Lee Masters</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=373710" data-title="Abel Melveny de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="I bought every kind of machine that's known -- Grinders, shellers, planters, mowers, Mills and rakes and ploughs and threshers -- And all of them stood in the rain and sun, Getting rusted, warped and battered, For I had no sheds to store them in, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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