<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408844" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The King [ I ]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AMONG the sons of Englishmen<br>Full many feel like real tears,<br>For, though he reigned but scarcely ten,<br>He bore the burden many years.<br>He lived the dead past doubly down,<br>He shamed, by manliness and truth,<br>The lies that beat about a crown,<br>And round a known man in his youth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he had lived as men have done<br>Since Adam’s time, to prove them true.<br>He proved it in his manhood’s prime,<br>And to the end, as strong men do.<br>And so he died, and, ever since,<br>And on through years the words shall ring:<br>“He lived a man, he lived a prince,<br>And died a gentleman and King.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unto the friends of his hot youth,<br>In his wise age, he still was true.<br>He showed, by steadfastness and truth,<br>What kings as well as men can do;<br>Till all was manlike or forgot,<br>Long years ere he found his release;<br>He made them loyal who were not,<br>He won respect, and kept the peace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</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=408844" data-title="The King [ I ] de Henry Lawson" data-description="AMONG the sons of Englishmen Full many feel like real tears, For, though he reigned but scarcely ten, He bore the burden many years. He lived the dead past doubly down, He shamed, by manliness and truth, The lies that beat about a crown, And round..."></div> </div> </div>

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