<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391027" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Poet's Metamorphosis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maecenas, I propose to fly<br>To realms beyond these human portals;<br>No common things shall be my wings,<br>But such as sprout upon immortals.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of lowly birth, once shed of earth,<br>Your Horace, precious (so you've told him),<br>Shall soar away; no tomb of clay<br>Nor Stygian prison-house shall hold him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon my skin feathers begin<br>To warn the songster of his fleeting;<br>But never mind, I leave behind<br>Songs all the world shall keep repeating.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lo! Boston girls, with corkscrew curls,<br>And husky westerns, wild and woolly,<br>And southern climes shall vaunt my rhymes,<br>And all profess to know me fully.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Methinks the West shall know me best,<br>And therefore hold my memory dearer;<br>For by that lake a bard shall make<br>My subtle, hidden meanings clearer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So cherished, I shall never die;<br>Pray, therefore, spare your dolesome praises,<br>Your elegies, and plaintive cries,<br>For I shall fertilize no daisies!</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=391027" data-title="The Poet's Metamorphosis de Eugene Field" data-description="Maecenas, I propose to fly To realms beyond these human portals; No common things shall be my wings, But such as sprout upon immortals. Of lowly birth, once shed of earth, Your Horace, precious (so you've told him), Shall soar away; no tomb of cl..."></div> </div> </div>

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