<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418746" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Boundaries Of Humanity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHEN the primeval<br>All-holy Father<br>Sows with a tranquil hand<br>From clouds, as they roll,<br>Bliss-spreading lightnings<br>Over the earth,<br>Then do I kiss the last<br>Hem of his garment,<br>While by a childlike awe<br>Fill'd is my breast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For with immortals<br>Ne'er may a mortal<br>Measure himself.<br>If he soar upwards<br>And if he touch<br>With his forehead the stars,<br>Nowhere will rest then<br>His insecure feet,<br>And with him sport<br>Tempest and cloud.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though with firm sinewy<br>Limbs he may stand<br>On the enduring<br>Well-grounded earth,<br>All he is ever<br>Able to do,<br>Is to resemble<br>The oak or the vine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wherein do gods<br>Differ from mortals?<br>In that the former<br>See endless billows<br>Heaving before them;<br>Us doth the billow<br>Lift up and swallow,<br>So that we perish.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Small is the ring<br>Enclosing our life,<br>And whole generations<br>Link themselves firmly<br>On to existence's<br>Chain never-ending.</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=418746" data-title="The Boundaries Of Humanity de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" data-description="WHEN the primeval All-holy Father Sows with a tranquil hand From clouds, as they roll, Bliss-spreading lightnings Over the earth, Then do I kiss the last Hem of his garment, While by a childlike awe Fill'd is my breast. For with immortals Ne'er m..."></div> </div> </div>

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