<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408464" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Being waked out of my sleep by a snuff of Candle which offended me, I thus thought</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps 'twas but conceit. Erroneous sence! <br>Thou art thine own distemper and offence. <br>Imagine then, that sick unwholsom steam <br>Was thy corruption breath'd into a dream. <br>Nor is it strange, when we in charnells dwell, <br>That all our thoughts of earth and frailty smell. <br>Man is a Candle, whose unhappy light <br>Burns in the day, and smothers in the night. <br>And as you see the dying taper waste, <br>By such degrees does he to darkness haste. <br>Here is the diff'rence: When our bodies lamps <br>Blinded by age, or choakt with mortall damps, <br>Now faint and dim and sickly 'gin to wink, <br>And in their hollow sockets lowly sink; <br>When all our vital fires ceasing to burn, <br>Leave nought but snuff and ashes in our Urn: <br>God will restore those fallen lights again, <br>And kindle them to an Eternal flame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+King">Henry King</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=408464" data-title="Being waked out of my sleep by a snuff of Candle which offended me, I thus thought de Henry King" data-description="Perhaps 'twas but conceit. Erroneous sence! Thou art thine own distemper and offence. Imagine then, that sick unwholsom steam Was thy corruption breath'd into a dream. Nor is it strange, when we in charnells dwell, That all our thoughts of ea..."></div> </div> </div>

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