<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409284" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weighing the steadfastness and state<br>Of some mean things which here below reside,<br>Where birds like watchful clocks the noiseless date<br>And intercourse of times divide;<br>Where bees at night get home and hive, and flowers<br>Early, as well as late,<br>Rise with the sun, and set in the same bowers;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would, said I, my God would give<br>The staidness of these things to man! for these<br>To His divine appointments ever cleave,<br>And no new business breaks their peace;<br>The birds nor sow nor reap, yet sup and dine;<br>The flowers without clothes live,<br>Yet Solomon was never dressed so fine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Man hath still either toys or care;<br>He hath no root, nor to one place is tied,<br>But ever restless and irregular<br>About this earth doth run and ride;<br>He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where;<br>He says it is so far<br>That he hath quite forgot how to go there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He knocks at all doors, strays and roams,<br>Nay, hath not so much wit as some stones have,<br>Which in the darkest nights point to their homes<br>By some hid sense their Maker gave;<br>Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest<br>And passage through these looms<br>God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Vaughan">Henry Vaughan</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=409284" data-title="Man de Henry Vaughan" data-description="Weighing the steadfastness and state Of some mean things which here below reside, Where birds like watchful clocks the noiseless date And intercourse of times divide; Where bees at night get home and hive, and flowers Early, as well as late, Rise ..."></div> </div> </div>

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