<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426239" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Vacillation - 0012</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My thoughts and deeds, alas, compete, <br>they've yet to prove to me<br>that what I wish and what complete<br>identical can be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Tis base to boast ten times a day, <br>days fifty two times seven, <br>that best behaviour's to delay, <br>as help descends from Heaven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Cunctator' I long since deserve<br>that merit meted moons ago, <br>and thereunto add 'Maximus'<br>the Romans did bestow<br>on one brave man who'd, in the past, <br>slight chance to meet with lance<br>his foe, and happy homeward cast<br>his way with winning chants, <br>and so delayed until the time<br>when, weakened by the war, <br>his foemen left their dead behind<br>to Carthage to withdraw.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I'm no hero, no hurray! <br>A craven coward I; <br>avoiding issues every day<br>I often let things lie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Tis only my own self I spite<br>with inner vacillation, <br>let heart and head ally to fight<br>destructive hesitation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(4 July 1974)</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=426239" data-title="Vacillation - 0012 de Jonathan Robin" data-description="My thoughts and deeds, alas, compete, they've yet to prove to me that what I wish and what complete identical can be. ‘Tis base to boast ten times a day, days fifty two times seven, that best behaviour's to delay, as help descends from Heav..."></div> </div> </div>

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