<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=429737" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lesbia's Daughter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">LESBIA'S daughter, I shall tell no lie, <br>Here's no fit amber for such a dainty fly. <br>Let them embalm your beauty whoso can <br>In boastful odes, I'm a more honest man. <br>Lovers' abodes with poets' words are paved, <br>But prudent girls would get those vows engraved, <br>For brass than paper being something stronger <br>May last, it's more than like, a fortnight longer. <br>Where's the fine music that the fossil men <br>Of lost Lemuria brandished on a pen? <br>All tossed in earth—men, music, lovers gone— <br>And where's the lust a skull has for a bone? <br>If joy can turn a moment to a year, <br>Why take to Then and There what's meant for Here, <br>Or nurture for a cemetery tense <br>The curious pleasures of impermanence? <br>Look for no lovers on that later scene, <br>Let it avail you Are, who shall have Been, <br>Burnt utterly the stick you had to burn, <br>Lived once, loved well, gave thanks, and won't return.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Kenneth+Slessor">Kenneth Slessor</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=429737" data-title="Lesbia's Daughter de Kenneth Slessor" data-description="LESBIA'S daughter, I shall tell no lie, Here's no fit amber for such a dainty fly. Let them embalm your beauty whoso can In boastful odes, I'm a more honest man. Lovers' abodes with poets' words are paved, But prudent girls would get those vo..."></div> </div> </div>

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