<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425663" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Borrowed Time</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O ne lonely life is offered knight or knave, <br>N o second chance is sent, though some would seek<br>B y bell, book, candle to sustain thread weak, <br>O r mask the blinding darkness of the grave.<br>R emember, ‘Carpe Diem! ’ Coward, brave, <br>R aise equal dust when ploughed, while pauper, sheik<br>O wn an equal plot when past plots speak<br>W ith Lethe’s tongue, and young men fresh paths pave.<br>E xistence fires derisive pyres, we’d wave<br>D eath’s dancing grin aside, but no technique<br>T hat’s known can conquer Time. Each day, each week, <br>I s sacrificed. Man stays the Future’s slave.<br>M inute more is minute minus [s]tress, -<br>E very moment leaves Man’s little, less...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">© Jonathan Robin – acrostic sonnet written 28 September 1992</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=425663" data-title="On Borrowed Time de Jonathan Robin" data-description="O ne lonely life is offered knight or knave, N o second chance is sent, though some would seek B y bell, book, candle to sustain thread weak, O r mask the blinding darkness of the grave. R emember, ‘Carpe Diem! ’ Coward, brave, R aise equal..."></div> </div> </div>

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