<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396948" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wisdom Of Eld</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We spend our lives in learning pilotage,<br>And grow good steersmen when the vessel's crank!<br>Gap-toothed he spake, and with a tottering shank<br>Sidled to gain the sunny bench of Age.<br>It is the sentence which completes that stage;<br>A testament of wisdom reading blank.<br>The seniors of the race, on their last plank,<br>Pass mumbling it as nature's final page.<br>These, bent by such experience, are the band<br>Who captain young enthusiasts to maintain<br>What things we view, and Earth's decree withstand,<br>Lest dreaded Change, long dammed by dull decay,<br>Should bring the world a vessel steered by brain,<br>And ancients musical at close of day.</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=396948" data-title="The Wisdom Of Eld de George Meredith" data-description="We spend our lives in learning pilotage, And grow good steersmen when the vessel's crank! Gap-toothed he spake, and with a tottering shank Sidled to gain the sunny bench of Age. It is the sentence which completes that stage; A testament of wisdom ..."></div> </div> </div>

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