<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397020" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Reflections From The Flash Of A Meteor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">So teach me to regard my day, <br>How small a point my life appears; <br>One gleam to death the whole betrays, <br>A momentary flash of years. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">One moment smiles, the scene is past, <br>Life's gaudy bloom at once we shed, <br>And thinly beneath affliction's blast, <br>Or drop as soon among the dead. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Short is the chain wound up at morn, <br>Which oft runs down and stops at noon; <br>Thus in a moment man is born, <br>And, lo! the creature dies as soon. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life's little torch how soon forgot, <br>Dim burning on its dreary shore; <br>Just like that star which downwards shot, <br>It glimmers and is seen no more. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Teach me to draw this transient breath, <br>With conscious awe my end to prove, <br>Early to make my peace with death, <br>As thus in haste from time we move.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">heaven, through this murky vale, <br>Direct me with a burning pen; <br>Thus shall I on a tuneful gale <br>Fleet out my threescore years and ten.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Moses+Horton">George Moses Horton</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=397020" data-title="Reflections From The Flash Of A Meteor de George Moses Horton" data-description="So teach me to regard my day, How small a point my life appears; One gleam to death the whole betrays, A momentary flash of years. One moment smiles, the scene is past, Life's gaudy bloom at once we shed, And thinly beneath affliction's bla..."></div> </div> </div>

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