<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384796" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Worldly Wisdom</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If it were in my dead Past’s power<br> To let my Present bask<br>In some lost pleasure for an hour, <br> This is the boon I’d ask: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Re-pedestal from out the dust<br> Where long ago ‘twas hurled, <br>My beautiful incautious trust<br> In this unworthy world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The symbol of my souls own truth –<br> I saw it go with tears –<br>The sweet unwisdom of my youth –<br> That vanished with the years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since knowledge brings us only grief, <br> I would return again<br>To happy ignorance and belief<br> In motives and in men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For worldly wisdom learned in pain<br> Is in itself a cross, <br>Significant mayhap of gain, <br> Yet sign of saddest loss.</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=384796" data-title="Worldly Wisdom de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="If it were in my dead Past’s power To let my Present bask In some lost pleasure for an hour, This is the boon I’d ask: Re-pedestal from out the dust Where long ago ‘twas hurled, My beautiful incautious trust In this unworthy world. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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