<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421650" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Vanity Of Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The evils that beset our path<br>Who can prevent or cure?<br>We stand upon the brink of death<br>When most we seem secure. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If we today sweet peace possess,<br>It soon may be withdrawn;<br>Some change may plunge us in distress,<br>Before tomorrow's dawn. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Disease and pain invade our health<br>And find an easy prey;<br>And oft, when least expected, wealth<br>Takes wings and flies away. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A fever or a blow can shake<br>Our wisdom's boasted rule;<br>And of the brightest genius make<br>A madman or a fool. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The gourds, from which we look for fruit,<br>Produce us only pain;<br>A worm unseen attacks the root,<br>And all our hopes are vain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I pity those who seek no more<br>Than such a world can give;<br>Wretched they are, and blind, and poor,<br>And dying while they live. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since sin has filled the earth with woe,<br>And creatures fade and die;<br>Lord wean our hearts from things below,<br>And fix our hopes on high.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Newton">John Newton</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=421650" data-title="Vanity Of Life de John Newton" data-description="The evils that beset our path Who can prevent or cure? We stand upon the brink of death When most we seem secure. If we today sweet peace possess, It soon may be withdrawn; Some change may plunge us in distress, Before tomorrow's dawn. Disease..."></div> </div> </div>

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