<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384681" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Squanderer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">God gave him passions, splendid as the sun,<br>Meant for the lordliest purposes; a part<br>Of nature's full and fertile mother heart,<br>From which new systems and new stars are spun.<br>And now, behold, behold, what he has done!<br>In Folly's court and carnal Pleasures' mart<br>He flung the wealth life gave him at the start.<br>(This, of all mortal sins, the deadliest one.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>At dawn he stood, potential, opulent,<br>With virile manhood, and emotions keen,<br>And wonderful with God's creative fire.<br>At noon he stands, with Love's large fortune spent<br>In petty traffic, unproductive, mean-<br>A pauper, cursed with impotent desire.</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=384681" data-title="The Squanderer de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="God gave him passions, splendid as the sun, Meant for the lordliest purposes; a part Of nature's full and fertile mother heart, From which new systems and new stars are spun. And now, behold, behold, what he has done! In Folly's court and carnal P..."></div> </div> </div>

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