<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396005" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Two Goblets</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bearing two crystal goblets in her hands<br>To a philosopher an Angel came:<br>One wine shone clear as water o’er white sands,<br>One red as flame. <br>“Choose!” said the Angel. “From life’s wine-press flows<br>For all mankind the vintage which I bring.<br>The pale cup holds exemption from life’s woes,<br>The red brings suffering.” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“One wine is colourless,” the dreamer said.<br>“Who suffer keenest nobler joys attain.”<br>And to the dregs drained from the goblet red<br>The draught of pain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then spake the Angel: “Thou hast chosen well.<br>What seemeth loss to thee shall prove thy gain.<br>All that is pure, and sweet, and beautiful<br>Is born of pain.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Essex+Evans">George Essex Evans</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=396005" data-title="The Two Goblets de George Essex Evans" data-description="Bearing two crystal goblets in her hands To a philosopher an Angel came: One wine shone clear as water o’er white sands, One red as flame. “Choose!” said the Angel. “From life’s wine-press flows For all mankind the vintage which I bring..."></div> </div> </div>

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