<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425048" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fallen is Star - 1053 - 2008 Version of Downfall</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fallen is star which once brightly, <br>once clear from sheer firmament shone, <br>no trace now remains as Time lightly<br>grieves over life's leaves ever gone.<br> <br>Whoever would compromise slightly<br>with principles life's staff has spun<br>must offer impression unsightly<br>some pity, some spurn, and most shun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ideals threading vision so knightly<br>no gleam still retain - what begun<br>in trust unembellished rusts, rightly<br>forgotten, ignored or undone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No point in requesting politely<br>what became of game, quest, aim, fête's fun; <br>in tatters Fate scatters forthrightly<br>all trace of race no-one has won.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though today some may say hale and sprightly<br>‘tomorrow holds promise' - yet none<br>would relinquish life's tether held tightly<br>soon Time spills, boon lies still, distance run. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(22 October 2008)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</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=425048" data-title="Fallen is Star - 1053 - 2008 Version of Downfall de Jonathan Robin" data-description="Fallen is star which once brightly, once clear from sheer firmament shone, no trace now remains as Time lightly grieves over life's leaves ever gone. Whoever would compromise slightly with principles life's staff has spun must offer impression..."></div> </div> </div>

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