<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381442" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Three Quatrains</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As long as Fame's imperious music rings <br>Will poets mock it with crowned words august; <br>And haggard men will clamber to be kings <br>As long as Glory weighs itself in dust. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Drink to the splendor of the unfulfilled, <br>Nor shudder for the revels that are done: <br>The wines that flushed Lucullus are all spilled, <br>The strings that Nero fingered are all gone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We cannot crown ourselves with everything, <br>Nor can we coax the Fates for us to quarrel: <br>No matter what we are, or what we sing, <br>Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edwin+Arlington+Robinson">Edwin Arlington Robinson</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=381442" data-title="Three Quatrains de Edwin Arlington Robinson" data-description="I As long as Fame's imperious music rings Will poets mock it with crowned words august; And haggard men will clamber to be kings As long as Glory weighs itself in dust. II Drink to the splendor of the unfulfilled, Nor shudder for the revel..."></div> </div> </div>

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