<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Horace to Melpomene</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lofty and enduring is the monument I've reared,--<br> Come, tempests, with your bitterness assailing;<br>And thou, corrosive blasts of time, by all things mortal feared,<br> Thy buffets and thy rage are unavailing!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I shall not altogether die; by far my greater part<br> Shall mock man's common fate in realms infernal;<br>My works shall live as tributes to my genius and my art,--<br> My works shall be my monument eternal!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While this great Roman empire stands and gods protect our fanes,<br> Mankind with grateful hearts shall tell the story,<br>How one most lowly born upon the parched Apulian plains<br> First raised the native lyric muse to glory.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Assume, revered Melpomene, the proud estate I've won,<br> And, with thine own dear hand the meed supplying,<br>Bind thou about the forehead of thy celebrated son<br> The Delphic laurel-wreath of fame undying!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eugene+Field">Eugene Field</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=390906" data-title="Horace to Melpomene de Eugene Field" data-description="Lofty and enduring is the monument I've reared,-- Come, tempests, with your bitterness assailing; And thou, corrosive blasts of time, by all things mortal feared, Thy buffets and thy rage are unavailing! I shall not altogether die; by far my gr..."></div> </div> </div>

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