<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391959" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Shortness Of Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And what's a life? A weary pilgrimage,<br>Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage<br>With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And what's a life? The flourishing array<br>Of the proud summer-meadow, which to-day<br>Wears her green plush, and is to-morrow hay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Read on this dial, how the shades devour<br>My short-lived winter's day! hour eats up the hour;<br>Alas! the total's but from eight to four. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behold these lilies, which Thy hands have made<br>Fair copies of my life, and open laid<br>To view, how soon they droop, how soon they fade!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shade not that dial, night will blind too soon;<br>My nonaged day already points to noon;<br>How simple is my suit! how small my boon!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor do I beg this slender inch to wile<br>The time away, or falsely to beguile<br>My thoughts with joy: here's nothing worth a smile.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Quarles">Francis Quarles</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=391959" data-title="The Shortness Of Life de Francis Quarles" data-description="And what's a life? A weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age. And what's a life? The flourishing array Of the proud summer-meadow, which to-day Wears her green plush, and is to-morrow..."></div> </div> </div>

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