<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415284" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Epitaph, Intended For Himself</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Escaped the gloom of mortal life, a soul<br>Here leaves its mouldering tenement of clay,<br>Safe where no cares their whelming billows roll,<br>No doubts bewilder, and no hopes betray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>2</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like thee, I once have stemm'd the sea of life;<br>Like thee, have languish'd after empty joys;<br>Like thee, have labour'd in the stormy strife;<br>Been grieved for trifles, and amused with toys.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>3</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, for a while, 'gainst Passion's threatful blast<br>Let steady Reason urge the struggling oar;<br>Shot through the dreary gloom, the morn at last<br>Gives to thy longing eye the blissful shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>4</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Forget my frailties, thou art also frail;<br>Forgive my lapses, for thyself mayst fall;<br>Nor read, unmoved, my artless tender tale,<br>I was a friend, O man! to thee, to all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Beattie">James Beattie</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=415284" data-title="Epitaph, Intended For Himself de James Beattie" data-description="1 Escaped the gloom of mortal life, a soul Here leaves its mouldering tenement of clay, Safe where no cares their whelming billows roll, No doubts bewilder, and no hopes betray. 2 Like thee, I once have stemm'd the sea of life; Like thee, have..."></div> </div> </div>

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