<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420333" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Wordplay</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A word was born, some years ago, <br>Perhaps from Mister Marlowe’s pen.<br>Will Shakespeare stole it for his play.<br>The groundlings picked it up that way.<br>It gained currency by the hour-<br>For such is a poets’ power, <br>though Marlowe died in a tavern brawl<br>And all but scholars forget his name, <br>Words conquer worlds, thoughts persist<br>far longer than his Tamburlaine.<br>Genetic lines may hit dead ends<br>From war or pestilence or fate-<br>But words poetic or prosaic<br>Survive (though sometimes they’re Archaic.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</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=420333" data-title="Wordplay de John F. McCullagh" data-description="A word was born, some years ago, Perhaps from Mister Marlowe’s pen. Will Shakespeare stole it for his play. The groundlings picked it up that way. It gained currency by the hour- For such is a poets’ power, though Marlowe died in a tavern br..."></div> </div> </div>

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