<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396102" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Euthanasia</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Time, or soon or late, shall bring<br>The dreamless sleep that lulls the dead,<br>Oblivion! may thy languid wing<br>Wave gently o'er my dying bed!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No band of friends or heirs be there,<br>To weep, or wish, the coming blow:<br>No maiden, with dishevelled hair,<br>To feel, or feign, decorous woe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But silent let me sink to earth,<br>With no officious mourners near: <br>I would not mar one hour of mirth,<br>Nor startle friendship with a tear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet Love, if Love in such an hour<br>Could nobly check its useless sighs,<br>Might then exert its latest power <br>In her who lives, and him who dies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twere sweet, my Psyche! to the last<br>Thy features still serene to see:<br>Forgetful of its struggles past,<br>E’en Pain itself should smile on thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But vain the wish?for Beauty still <br>Will shrink, as shrinks the ebbing breath;<br>And women's tears, produced at will,<br>Deceive in life, unman in death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then lonely be my latest hour, <br>Without regret, without a groan;<br>For thousands Death hath ceas’d to lower,<br>And pain been transient or unknown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Ay, but to die, and go,' alas!<br>Where all have gone, and all must go!<br>To be the nothing that I was <br>Ere born to life and living woe!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen,<br>Count o'er thy days from anguish free,<br>And know, whatever thou hast been, <br>'Tis something better not to be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Byron">Byron</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=396102" data-title="Euthanasia de Byron" data-description="When Time, or soon or late, shall bring The dreamless sleep that lulls the dead, Oblivion! may thy languid wing Wave gently o'er my dying bed! No band of friends or heirs be there, To weep, or wish, the coming blow: No maiden, with dishevelled ha..."></div> </div> </div>

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