<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396236" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Belshazzar</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Belshazzar! from the banquet turn,<br>Nor in thy sensual fulness fall;<br>Behold! while yet before thee burn<br>The graven words, the glowing wall.<br>Many a despot men miscall<br>Crown'd and anointed from on high;<br>But thou, the weakest, worst of all­<br>Is it not written, thou must die?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Go! dash the roses from thy brow--<br>Grey hairs but poorly wreathe with them; <br>Youth's garlands misbecome thee now,<br>More than thy very diadem,<br>Where thou hast tarnish'd every gem:<br>Then throw the worthless bauble by,<br>Which, worn by thee, ev'n slaves con­temn; <br>And learn like better men to die!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! early in the balance weigh'd,<br>And ever light of word and worth,<br>Whose soul expired ere youth decay'd,<br>And left thee but a mass of earth. <br>To see thee moves the scorner's mirth:<br>But tears in Hope's averted eye<br>Lament that even thou hadst birth--<br>Unfit to govern, live, or die.</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=396236" data-title="To Belshazzar de Byron" data-description="Belshazzar! from the banquet turn, Nor in thy sensual fulness fall; Behold! while yet before thee burn The graven words, the glowing wall. Many a despot men miscall Crown'd and anointed from on high; But thou, the weakest, worst of all­ Is it not..."></div> </div> </div>

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