<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384499" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Heritage</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I into life so full of love was sent</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That all the shadows which fall on the way</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of every human being could not stay,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But fled before the light my spirit lent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw the world through gold and crimson dyes:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men sighed and said, 'Those rosy hues will fade</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As you pass on into the glare and shade!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still beautiful the way seems to mine eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They said, 'You are too jubilant and glad;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The world is full of sorrow and of wrong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Full soon your lips shall breathe forth sighs—not song.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The day wears on, and yet I am not sad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They said, 'You love too largely, and you must,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through wound on wound, grow bitter to your kind.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They were false prophets; day by day I find</div><div style="margin:10px 0">More cause for love, and less cause for distrust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They said, 'Too free you give your soul's rare wine;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The world will quaff, but it will not repay.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet in the emptied flagons, day by day,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">True hearts pour back a nectar as divine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy heritage! Is it not love's estate?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look to it, then, and keep its soil well tilled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hold that my best wishes are fulfilled</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because I love so much, and cannot hate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</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=384499" data-title="My Heritage de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="I into life so full of love was sent That all the shadows which fall on the way Of every human being could not stay, But fled before the light my spirit lent. I saw the world through gold and crimson dyes: Men sighed and said, 'Those rosy hue..."></div> </div> </div>

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