<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396828" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Theme</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of me and of my theme think what thou wilt:<br>The song of gladness one straight bolt can check.<br>But I have never stood at Fortune's beck:<br>Were she and her light crew to run atilt<br>At my poor holding little would be spilt;<br>Small were the praise for singing o'er that wreck.<br>Who courts her dooms to strife his bended neck;<br>He grasps a blade, not always by the hilt.<br>Nathless she strikes at random, can be fell<br>With other than those votaries she deals<br>The black or brilliant from her thunder-rift.<br>I say but that this love of Earth reveals<br>A soul beside our own to quicken, quell,<br>Irradiate, and through ruinous floods uplift.</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=396828" data-title="My Theme de George Meredith" data-description="Of me and of my theme think what thou wilt: The song of gladness one straight bolt can check. But I have never stood at Fortune's beck: Were she and her light crew to run atilt At my poor holding little would be spilt; Small were the praise for si..."></div> </div> </div>

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