<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427715" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Folly</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(For A. K. K.) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What distant mountains thrill and glow<br> Beneath our Lady Folly's tread?<br>Why has she left us, wise in woe,<br> Shrewd, practical, uncomforted?<br>We cannot love or dream or sing,<br> We are too cynical to pray,<br>There is no joy in anything<br> Since Lady Folly went away. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many a knight and gentle maid,<br> Whose glory shines from years gone by,<br>Through ignorance was unafraid<br> And as a fool knew how to die.<br>Saint Folly rode beside Jehanne<br> And broke the ranks of Hell with her,<br>And Folly's smile shone brightly on<br> Christ's plaything, Brother Juniper. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our minds are troubled and defiled<br> By study in a weary school.<br>O for the folly of the child!<br> The ready courage of the fool!<br>Lord, crush our knowledge utterly<br> And make us humble, simple men;<br>And cleansed of wisdom, let us see<br> Our Lady Folly's face again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Joyce+Kilmer">Joyce Kilmer</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=427715" data-title="Folly de Joyce Kilmer" data-description="(For A. K. K.) What distant mountains thrill and glow Beneath our Lady Folly's tread? Why has she left us, wise in woe, Shrewd, practical, uncomforted? We cannot love or dream or sing, We are too cynical to pray, There is no joy in anything ..."></div> </div> </div>

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