<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416544" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Worn-Out Pencil</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Welladay!<br>Here I lay<br>You at rest--all worn away,<br>O my pencil, to the tip<br>Of our old companionship!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Memory<br>Sighs to see<br>What you are, and used to be,<br>Looking backward to the time<br>When you wrote your earliest rhyme!--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I sat<br>Filing at<br>Your first point, and dreaming that<br>Your initial song should be<br>Worthy of posterity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With regret<br>I forget<br>If the song be living yet,<br>Yet remember, vaguely now,<br>It was honest, anyhow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You have brought<br>Me a thought--<br>Truer yet was never taught,--<br>That the silent song is best,<br>And the unsung worthiest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So if I,<br>When I die,<br>May as uncomplainingly<br>Drop aside as now you do,<br>Write of me, as I of you:--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here lies one<br>Who begun<br>Life a-singing, heard of none;<br>And he died, satisfied,<br>With his dead songs by his side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</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=416544" data-title="A Worn-Out Pencil de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="Welladay! Here I lay You at rest--all worn away, O my pencil, to the tip Of our old companionship! Memory Sighs to see What you are, and used to be, Looking backward to the time When you wrote your earliest rhyme!-- When I sat Filing at Your fir..."></div> </div> </div>

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