<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450367" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Choice</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life, come to me in no pale guise and ashen, <br>I care not for thee in such placid fashion! <br>I would share widely, Life, <br>In all thy joy and strife, <br>Would sound thy deeps and reach thy highest passion, <br>With thy delight and with thy suffering rife. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whether I bide with thee in cot or palace, <br>I would drink deeply, Life, of thy great chalice, <br>Even to its bitter lees­<br>Yea, shrinking not from these, <br>Since out of bitterness come strength and solace <br>And wisdom is not won in slumberous ease. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wan peace, uncolored days, were a poor favor; <br>To lack great pain and love were to lack savor. <br>Life, take the heart of me <br>And fill it brimmingly, <br>No matter with what poignant brew or flavor, <br>So that it may not shrunk and empty be. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, Life, thus would I live, nor play at living, <br>The best of me for thy best gladly giving, <br>With an unfaltering cheer, <br>Greeting thee year by year, <br>Even in thy dourest mood some good achieving, <br>Until I read thy deep-hid meaning clear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lucy+Maud+Montgomery">Lucy Maud Montgomery</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=450367" data-title="The Choice de Lucy Maud Montgomery" data-description="Life, come to me in no pale guise and ashen, I care not for thee in such placid fashion! I would share widely, Life, In all thy joy and strife, Would sound thy deeps and reach thy highest passion, With thy delight and with thy suffering rife...."></div> </div> </div>

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