<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373909" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Robert Southey Burke</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I spent my money trying to elect you Mayor<br>A. D. Blood.<br>I lavished my admiration upon you,<br>You were to my mind the almost perfect man.<br>You devoured my personality,<br>And the idealism of my youth,<br>And the strength of a high-souled fealty.<br>And all my hopes for the world,<br>And all my beliefs in Truth,<br>Were smelted up in the blinding heat<br>Of my devotion to you,<br>And molded into your image.<br>And then when I found what you were:<br>That your soul was small<br>And your words were false<br>As your blue-white porcelain teeth,<br>And your cuffs of celluloid,<br>I hated the love I had for you,<br>I hated myself, I hated you<br>For my wasted soul, and wasted youth.<br>And I say to all, beware of ideals,<br>Beware of giving your love away<br>To any man alive.</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=373909" data-title="Robert Southey Burke de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="I spent my money trying to elect you Mayor A. D. Blood. I lavished my admiration upon you, You were to my mind the almost perfect man. You devoured my personality, And the idealism of my youth, And the strength of a high-souled fealty. And all my ..."></div> </div> </div>

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