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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=393361" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Resignation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes! even I was in Arcadia born,<br>And, in mine infant ears,<br>A vow of rapture was by Nature sworn;-<br>Yes! even I was in Arcadia born,<br>And yet my short spring gave me only-tears!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once blooms, and only once, life's youthful May;<br>For me its bloom hath gone.<br>The silent God-O brethren, weep to-day-<br>The silent God hath quenched my torch's ray,<br>And the vain dream hath flown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon thy darksome bridge, Eternity,<br>I stand e'en now, dread thought!<br>Take, then, these joy-credentials back from me!<br>Unopened I return them now to thee,<br>Of happiness, alas, know naught!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before Thy throne my mournful cries I vent,<br>Thou Judge, concealed from view!<br>To yonder star a joyous saying went<br>With judgment's scales to rule us thou art sent,<br>And call'st thyself Requiter, too!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here,-say they,-terrors on the bad alight,<br>And joys to greet the virtuous spring.<br>The bosom's windings thou'lt expose to sight,<br>Riddle of Providence wilt solve aright,<br>And reckon with the suffering!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here to the exile be a home outspread,<br>Here end the meek man's thorny path of strife!<br>A godlike child, whose name was Truth, they said,<br>Known but to few, from whom the many fled,<br>Restrained the ardent bridle of my life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It shall be thine another life to live,-<br>Thy youth to me surrender!<br>To thee this surety only can I give'-<br>I took the surety in that life to live;<br>And gave to her each youthful joy so tender.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Give me the woman precious to thy heart,<br>Give up to me thy Laura!<br>Beyond the grave will usury pay the smart.'-<br>I wept aloud, and from my bleeding heart<br>With resignation tore her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The obligation's drawn upon the dead!'<br>Thus laughed the world in scorn;<br>'The lying one, in league with despots dread,<br>For truth, a phantom palmed on thee instead,<br>Thou'lt be no more, when once this dream has gone!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shamelessly scoffed the mockers' serpent-band<br>'A dream that but prescription can admit<br>Dost dread? Where now thy God's protecting hand,<br>(The sick world's Saviour with such cunning planned),<br>Borrowed by human need of human wit?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What future is't that graves to us reveal?<br>What the eternity of thy discourse?<br>Honored because dark veils its form conceal,<br>The giant-shadows of the awe we feel,<br>Viewed in the hollow mirror of remorse!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'An image false of shapes of living mould,<br>(Time's very mummy, she!)<br>Whom only Hope's sweet balm hath power to hold<br>Within the chambers of the grave so cold,-<br>Thy fever calls this immortality!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'For empty hopes,-corruption gives the lie-<br>Didst thou exchange what thou hadst surely done?<br>Six thousand years sped death in silence by,-<br>His corpse from out the grave e'er mounted high,<br>That mention made of the Requiting One?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw time fly to reach thy distant shore,<br>I saw fair Nature lie<br>A shrivelled corpse behind him evermore,-<br>No dead from out the grave then sought to soar<br>Yet in that Oath divine still trusted I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My ev'ry joy to thee I've sacrificed,<br>I throw me now before thy judgment-throne;<br>The many's scorn with boldness I've despised,-<br>Only-thy gifts by me were ever prized,-<br>I ask my wages now, Requiting One!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'With equal love I love each child of mine!'<br>A genius hid from sight exclaimed.<br>'Two flowers,' he cried, 'ye mortals, mark the sign,-<br>Two flowers to greet the Searcher wise entwine,-<br>Hope and Enjoyment they are named.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Who of these flowers plucks one, let him ne'er yearn<br>To touch the other sister's bloom.<br>Let him enjoy, who has no faith; eterne<br>As earth, this truth!-Abstain, who faith can learn!<br>The world's long story is the world's own doom.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Hope thou hast felt,-thy wages, then, are paid;<br>Thy faith 'twas formed the rapture pledged to thee.<br>Thou might'st have of the wise inquiry made,-<br>The minutes thou neglectest, as they fade,<br>Are given back by no eternity!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Friedrich+Schiller">Friedrich Schiller</a><div class=q>
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Yes! even I was in Arcadia born,
And yet my short spring gave me only-tears!

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