<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418738" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tame Xenia</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">GOD gave to mortals birth,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In his own image too;<br>Then came Himself to earth,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A mortal kind and true.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">-----<br>BARBARIANS oft endeavour</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gods for themselves to make<br>But they're more hideous ever</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Than dragon or than snake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">-----<br>WHAT shall I teach thee, the very first thing?--<br>Fain would I learn o'er my shadow to spring!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">-----<br>'WHAT is science, rightly known?<br>'Tis the strength of life alone.<br>Life canst thou engender never,<br>Life must be life's parent ever.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">-----<br>It matters not, I ween,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where worms our friends consume,<br>Beneath the turf so green,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or 'neath a marble tomb.<br>Remember, ye who live,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though frowns the fleeting day,<br>That to your friends ye give</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What never will decay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</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=418738" data-title="Tame Xenia de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" data-description="GOD gave to mortals birth, In his own image too; Then came Himself to earth, A mortal kind and true. ----- BARBARIANS oft endeavour Gods for themselves to make But they're more hideous ever Than dragon or than snake. ----- WHAT shall I teach..."></div> </div> </div>

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