<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384562" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sestina</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wandered o'er the vast green plains of youth, <br>And searched for Pleasure. On a distant height<br>Fame's silhouette stood sharp against the skies.<br>Beyond vast crowds that thronged a broad highway<br>I caught the glimmer of a golden goal, <br>While from a blooming bower smiled siren Love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Straight gazing in her eyes, I laughed at Love, <br>With all the haughty insolence of youth, <br>As past her bower I strode to seek my goal.<br>'Now will I climb to glory's dizzy height, '<br>I said, ' for there above the common way<br>Doth pleasure dwell companioned by the skies.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when I reached that summit near the skies, <br>So far from man I seemed, so far from Love-<br>'Not here, ' I cried, 'doth Pleasure find her way, '<br>Seen from the distant borderland of youth.<br>Fame smiles upon us from her sun-kissed height, <br>But frowns in shadows when we reach the goal. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then were mine eyes fixed on that glittering goal, <br>Dear to all sense-sunk souls beneath the skies.<br>Gold tempts the artist from the lofty height, <br>Gold lures the maiden from the arms of Love, <br>Gold buys the fresh ingenuous heart of youth, <br>'And gold, ' I said, 'will show me Pleasure's way.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But ah! the soil and discord of that way, <br>Where savage hordes rushed headlong to the goal, <br>Dead to the best impulses of their youth, <br>Blind to the azure beauty of the skies; <br>Dulled to the voice of conscience and of love, <br>They wandered far from Truth's eternal height.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Truth spoke to me from that noble height, <br>Saying: 'Thou didst pass Pleasure on the way, <br>She with the yearning eyes so full of Love, <br>Whom thou disdained to seek for glory's goal.'<br>Two blending paths beneath God's arching skies<br>Lead straight to Pleasure. Ah, blind heart of youth, <br>Not up fame's height, not toward the base god's goal, <br>Doth Pleasure make her way, but 'neath calm skies<br>Where Duty walks with Love in endless youth.</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=384562" data-title="Sestina de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="I wandered o'er the vast green plains of youth, And searched for Pleasure. On a distant height Fame's silhouette stood sharp against the skies. Beyond vast crowds that thronged a broad highway I caught the glimmer of a golden goal, While from a ..."></div> </div> </div>

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