<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384785" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Wild Oats</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw a fair youth, with a brow broad and white,<br>And an eye that was beaming with intellect's light:<br>And his face seemed to glow with the wealth of his mind;<br>And I said, 'He will grace and ennoble mankind:<br>He is Nature's own king.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>We met yet again. I saw the youth stand<br>With a bowl that was flowing and red in his hand;<br>And he filled it again, and again did he quaff,<br>And his friends gathered round him, and said with a laugh,<br>'He is sowing his oats.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Ah! his eye was too bright, and his cheek was too red,<br>And I gazed on the youth with a feeling of dread;<br>And again as he laughingly lifted the bowl,<br>I turned from the scene with a shuddering soul:<br>It was terrible seed!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>We met but once more. I found in the street<br>A corpse half-enveloped in mud and in sleet:<br>A foul, bloated thing; but I saw in the face<br>A something that told of its boyhood's grace:<br>He had reaped the dire crop.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>O youths who are sowing wild oats! do you know<br>That the terrible seed you are planting will grow?<br>Have you thought how your God will require some day<br>An account of the life you are throwing away?<br>Have you thought, O rash youth?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>It will soon be too late, there is no time to waste;<br>Then throw down the cup! do not touch, do not taste!<br>It is filled with destruction and sorrow and pain:<br>Throw it down! throw it down! do not lift it again:<br>It will soon be too late!</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=384785" data-title="Wild Oats de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="I saw a fair youth, with a brow broad and white, And an eye that was beaming with intellect's light: And his face seemed to glow with the wealth of his mind; And I said, 'He will grace and ennoble mankind: He is Nature's own king.' We met yet ag..."></div> </div> </div>

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