<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373893" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Percival Sharp</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Observe the clasped hands!<br>Are they hands of farewell or greeting,<br>Hands that I helped or hands that helped me?<br>Would it not be well to carve a hand<br>With an inverted thumb, like Elagabalus?<br>And yonder is a broken chain,<br>The weakest-link idea perhaps --<br>But what was it?<br>And lambs, some lying down,<br>Others standing, as if listening to the shepherd --<br>Others bearing a cross, one foot lifted up --<br>Why not chisel a few shambles?<br>And fallen columns! Carve the pedestal, please,<br>Or the foundations; let us see the cause of the fall.<br>And compasses and mathematical instruments,<br>In irony of the under tenants' ignorance<br>Of determinants and the calculus of variations.<br>And anchors, for those who never sailed.<br>And gates ajar -- yes, so they were;<br>You left them open and stray goats entered your garden.<br>And an eye watching like one of the Arimaspi --<br>So did you -- with one eye.<br>And angels blowing trumpets -- you are heralded --<br>It is your horn and your angel and your family's estimate.<br>It is all very well, but for myself I know<br>I stirred certain vibrations in Spoon River<br>Which are my true epitaph, more lasting than stone.</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=373893" data-title="Percival Sharp de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="Observe the clasped hands! Are they hands of farewell or greeting, Hands that I helped or hands that helped me? Would it not be well to carve a hand With an inverted thumb, like Elagabalus? And yonder is a broken chain, The weakest-link idea perha..."></div> </div> </div>

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