<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381453" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Veteran Sirens</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ghost of Ninon would be sorry now <br>To laugh at them, were she to see them here, <br>So brave and so alert for learning how <br>To fence with reason for another year. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Age offers a far comelier diadem<br>Than theirs; but anguish has no eye for grace, <br>When time’s malicious mercy cautions them <br>To think a while of number and of space. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The burning hope, the worn expectancy, <br>The martyred humor, and the maimed allure,<br>Cry out for time to end his levity, <br>And age to soften its investiture; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But they, though others fade and are still fair, <br>Defy their fairness and are unsubdued; <br>Although they suffer, they may not forswear<br>The patient ardor of the unpursued. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor flesh, to fight the calendar so long; <br>Poor vanity, so quaint and yet so brave; <br>Poor folly, so deceived and yet so strong, <br>So far from Ninon and so near the grave.</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=381453" data-title="Veteran Sirens de Edwin Arlington Robinson" data-description="The ghost of Ninon would be sorry now To laugh at them, were she to see them here, So brave and so alert for learning how To fence with reason for another year. Age offers a far comelier diadem Than theirs; but anguish has no eye for grace, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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