<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414688" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Golden age which never was.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trebizond the fabled city.<br>Where everything was fair and just.<br>Lost to mankind, more’s the pity<br>Torn apart by greed and lust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It seems that Mankind’s doomed to be <br>discontented for evermore.<br>Because he is too proud to see<br> he has enough and needs no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He has sufficient for his needs<br> but he is never satisfied.<br>His discontentment sows the seeds<br>for lasting peace to be denied.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What you have got he wants to take<br> by any means he can employ.<br>His lust and greed he cannot slake <br>and what he has he can’t enjoy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He has to guard it constantly.<br>He is afraid the he might lose<br> his treasure to some enemy.<br>Although it is of little use.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For wealth cannot buy happiness.<br>Dissatisfied he pursues more.<br> He cannot understand that less<br>His peace of mind might well restore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He is condemned by his own greed<br> to amass more than he can use.<br> Acquisition is his creed<br>He does not see that he could choose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To be content with what he has<br> and does not need to strive for more<br>But sadly he will not: Alas<br>the systems rotten to the core.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mammon rules the world today.<br> The cult of the celebrity<br> to ostentatiously display.<br>What you have gained dishonestly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would we could regain again <br>The values which our forebears knew. <br>An honest man was valued then<br>and what he promised he would do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today this rule does not apply<br>It is acceptable to lie<br>deny responsibility<br>and not incur a penalty</div><div style="margin:10px 0">.08/05/2009<br>http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</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=414688" data-title="The Golden age which never was. de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="Trebizond the fabled city. Where everything was fair and just. Lost to mankind, more’s the pity Torn apart by greed and lust. It seems that Mankind’s doomed to be discontented for evermore. Because he is too proud to see he has enough and n..."></div> </div> </div>

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