<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=403157" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>While Yet we may</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ancient, wrinkled dames and jealous -<br> They whom joyless Age downcasts -<br>And the sere, gray-bearded fellows<br> Who would fain re-live their pasts -<br>These, the ancients, grimly tell us:<br> 'Vows are vain, and no love lasts.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Fleeting years fulfil Fate's sentence,<br> Eyes must dim, and hair turn gray,<br>Age bring wrinkles, p'rhaps repentance;<br> Youth shall quickly hie away,<br>And that time when youth has went hence,<br> We - and love - have had our day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Let the world, and fuming, fretting,<br> Busy worldlings pass us by,<br>Bent on piles of lucre getting -<br> They shall lose it when they die;<br>Past and future, sweet! forgetting -<br> Seize the present ere it fly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Your bright eyes are soft and smiling,<br> Pouting lips are moist and red,<br>And your whispers wondrous wiling -<br> Surely they would quick the dead -<br>And these hours they're now beguiling,<br> All too hasty will have fled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Years may bring a dole of sorrow,<br> Time enough to fast and pray,<br>From the present pleasures borrow,<br> Let the distant future pay;<br>Leave the penance for the morrow,<br> Sweetheart! love and laugh to-day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Harry+%27Breaker%27+Harbord+Morant">Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant</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=403157" data-title="While Yet we may de Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant" data-description="Ancient, wrinkled dames and jealous - They whom joyless Age downcasts - And the sere, gray-bearded fellows Who would fain re-live their pasts - These, the ancients, grimly tell us: 'Vows are vain, and no love lasts.' Fleeting years fulfil Fat..."></div> </div> </div>

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