<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426708" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Autograph Verses</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Prove what Life can give of gladness; <br>Seek for aught that merits trust — <br>All thy mirth will turn to sadness, <br>All thy bliss to cold disgust. <br>Soon revolving years will banish <br>Fairest hopes, in darkness laid; <br>Earthly treasures soon must vanish, <br>Strength and beauty fail and fade.' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus, life-weary, spake the preacher, <br>Closing his misguided quest. <br>Heed him not, the half-truth teacher, <br>Deaf to Love's supreme behest. <br>But with Faith thy life adorning, <br>Serve thy race as Heaven hath plann'd; <br>Sow thy seed at dawn of morning, <br>Nor at evening stay thy hand. <br>Never shall this path seem weary; <br>Never hath such purpose fail'd; <br>Nor the retrospect proved dreary, <br>When Life's furthest heights are scaled. <br>And in bright realms still above thee, <br>On some ever-verdant shore, <br>Those thou servest, and who love thee, <br>Shall rejoin, to part no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Joseph+Furphy">Joseph Furphy</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=426708" data-title="Autograph Verses de Joseph Furphy" data-description="'Prove what Life can give of gladness; Seek for aught that merits trust — All thy mirth will turn to sadness, All thy bliss to cold disgust. Soon revolving years will banish Fairest hopes, in darkness laid; Earthly treasures soon must vani..."></div> </div> </div>

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