<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425812" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Prosperity Palls</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">PROSPERITY PALLS<br>The era of pleasure is over for ever, <br>prosperity palls, seldom fails to appal.<br>When seeking some sanity see we should sever<br>last links with societal sirens that call<br>after all with fast laughter, considering never<br>that Man’s many illusions to dust must soon fall, <br>as dispassionate Death’s thrall not even keen, clever, <br>can ever avert, all are measured withal. <br>Vain attempts to escape fate prove empty endeavour<br>for sooner or later all sleep in Time's shawl.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>© Jonathan Robin 9 October 1978 revised 27 September 2008 </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>robi03_0162_robi03_0000 XXX_JZX</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>for previous version see below</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prosperity Palls</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The era of pleasure is over for ever, <br>prosperity palls where it does not appal.<br>When seeking some sanity see, we must sever<br>last links with Society ’s sirens that call<br>after all with fast laughter, considering never<br>that Man’s many illusions to dust must soon fall, <br>as dispassionate Death’s thrall not even the clever<br>can ever avert, for he measures us all, -<br>and attempts to escape him are empty endeavour<br>for sooner or later all sleep in his shawl! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> 9 October 1978</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=425812" data-title="Prosperity Palls de Jonathan Robin" data-description="PROSPERITY PALLS The era of pleasure is over for ever, prosperity palls, seldom fails to appal. When seeking some sanity see we should sever last links with societal sirens that call after all with fast laughter, considering never that Man’s ma..."></div> </div> </div>

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