<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=424807" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Caught who Court Death</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Without the blessing of the Gods<br>with Death you wed.<br>Yet suicide remains at odds<br>with those who fear to greet the sods, <br>who Heaven's gates slam on the dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The dead anticipated not, <br>wait, arms outspread.<br>Fell leaves their souls which, half-forgot, <br>skirl, skittles in windy melting pot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Paradise keeps tabs on age.<br>Narcissus, dead, <br>must wait in turn Who turns the page.<br>No joys, except that in his rage<br>he'll [s]wallow, outrage his own cage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If of his face he took much heed, <br>unless he fed<br>in fount of Youth, to drown, what need? <br>On half-life echo, fippled reed, <br>why haste with such ill gotten speed, <br>last words repeating? Thus I plead, <br>Echo swift sped<br>tell me, beneath the tumbleweed, <br>art dove or parrot pedigreed? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You, ever lazy, somehow dare<br>his words to shred, -<br>Narcissus love, his fretful prayer, <br>to offer up he did not care.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Death valley sees him stray, despair, <br>Narcissus dead.<br>Echo, alive, plays on the air.<br>The self-same song unites them there, <br>they would have made a happy pair!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Raymond+Radiguet">Raymond Radiguet</a>, translated by Jonathan Robin<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=424807" data-title="Caught who Court Death de Raymond Radiguet" data-description="Without the blessing of the Gods with Death you wed. Yet suicide remains at odds with those who fear to greet the sods, who Heaven's gates slam on the dead. The dead anticipated not, wait, arms outspread. Fell leaves their souls which, half-for..."></div> </div> </div>

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