<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408169" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sic Vita</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a parcel of vain strivings tied <br>By a chance bond together, <br>Dangling this way and that, their links <br>Were made so loose and wide, <br>Methinks, <br>For milder weather. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A bunch of violets without their roots, <br>And sorrel intermixed, <br>Encircled by a wisp of straw <br>Once coiled about their shoots, <br>The law <br>By which I'm fixed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A nosegay which Time clutched from out <br>Those fair Elysian fields, <br>With weeds and broken stems, in haste, <br>Doth make the rabble rout <br>That waste <br>The day he yields. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And here I bloom for a short hour unseen, <br>Drinking my juices up, <br>With no root in the land <br>To keep my branches green, <br>But stand <br>In a bare cup. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some tender buds were left upon my stem <br>In mimicry of life, <br>But ah! the children will not know, <br>Till time has withered them, <br>The woe <br>With which they're rife. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now I see I was not plucked for naught, <br>And after in life's vase <br>Of glass set while I might survive, <br>But by a kind hand brought <br>Alive <br>To a strange place. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That stock thus thinned will soon redeem its hours, <br>And by another year, <br>Such as God knows, with freer air, <br>More fruits and fairer flowers <br>Will bear, <br>While I droop here.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+David+Thoreau">Henry David Thoreau</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=408169" data-title="Sic Vita de Henry David Thoreau" data-description="I am a parcel of vain strivings tied By a chance bond together, Dangling this way and that, their links Were made so loose and wide, Methinks, For milder weather. A bunch of violets without their roots, And sorrel intermixed, Encircled by..."></div> </div> </div>

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