<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=429770" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To a Friend</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ADAM, because on the mind's roads <br>Your mouth is always in a hurry, <br>Because you know odes <br>And ways to make a curry, <br>Because you fall in love with words <br>And whistle beauty forth to kiss them, <br>And blow the tails from China birds <br>Whilst I continually miss them, <br>Because you top my angry best <br>At billiards, fugues or pulling corks out, <br>And whisk a fritter from its nest <br>Before there's time to hand the forks out, <br>Because you saw the Romans wink, <br>Because your senses dance to metre, <br>Because, no matter what I drink, <br>You'll hold at least another litre, <br>Because you've got a gipsy's eye <br>That melts the rage of catamountains, <br>And metaphors that pass me by <br>Burst from your lips in lovely fountains, <br>Because you've bitten the harsh foods <br>Of life, grabbed every dish that passes, <br>And walked amongst the multitudes <br>Without the curse of looking-glasses, <br>Because I burn the selfsame flame <br>No falls of dirty earth may smother, <br>Oh, in your Abbey of Thélème, <br>Enlist me as a serving-brother!</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=429770" data-title="To a Friend de Kenneth Slessor" data-description="ADAM, because on the mind's roads Your mouth is always in a hurry, Because you know odes And ways to make a curry, Because you fall in love with words And whistle beauty forth to kiss them, And blow the tails from China birds Whilst I conti..."></div> </div> </div>

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