<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396792" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Modern Love XIX: No State Is Enviable</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">No state is enviable. To the luck alone <br>Of some few favoured men I would put claim. <br>I bleed, but her who wounds I will not blame. <br>Have I not felt her heart as 'twere my own <br>Beat thro' me? could I hurt her? heaven and hell! <br>But I could hurt her cruelly! Can I let <br>My Love's old time-piece to another set, <br>Swear it can't stop, and must for ever swell? <br>Sure, that's one way Love drifts into the mart <br>Where goat-legged buyers throng. I see not plain:-- <br>My meaning is, it must not be again. <br>Great God! the maddest gambler throws his heart. <br>If any state be enviable on earth, <br>'Tis yon born idiot's, who, as days go by, <br>Still rubs his hands before him, like a fly, <br>In a queer sort of meditative mirth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Meredith">George Meredith</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=396792" data-title="Modern Love XIX: No State Is Enviable de George Meredith" data-description="No state is enviable. To the luck alone Of some few favoured men I would put claim. I bleed, but her who wounds I will not blame. Have I not felt her heart as 'twere my own Beat thro' me? could I hurt her? heaven and hell! But I could hurt he..."></div> </div> </div>

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