<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455738" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Skull</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O BOWL that held the hot imprisoned fire, <br>Cup where the sacred essence used to burn— <br>That fluent essence that shall ne’er return— <br>Old home of Aspiration and Desire: <br>What art thou now to honour and admire? <br>A thing inconsequential one might spurn, <br>Thou art not e’en the scattered ashes’ urn;— <br>Husk of the spirit that shall not expire. <br> <br>Thou cage and shell of ancient busy Thought, <br>Nurse-house of Soul, the domicile of him <br>Long fled thy osseous walls that Nature wrought <br>To please proud Time’s caprice and passing whim; <br>’Twixt two eternities a moment caught, <br>He rose from thee to join the seraphim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+E+Fullerton">Mary E Fullerton</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=455738" data-title="The Skull de Mary E Fullerton" data-description="O BOWL that held the hot imprisoned fire, Cup where the sacred essence used to burn— That fluent essence that shall ne’er return— Old home of Aspiration and Desire: What art thou now to honour and admire? A thing inconsequential one mig..."></div> </div> </div>

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