<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=456501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Human Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What mortal, when he saw,<br>Life's voyage done, his heavenly Friend,<br>Could ever yet dare tell him fearlessly:<br>'I have kept uninfringed my nature's law ; <br>The inly-written chart thou gavest me, <br>To guide me, I have steer'd by to the end'?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! let us make no claim,<br>On life's incognisable sea, <br>To too exact a steering of our way;<br>Let us not fret and fear to miss our aim, <br>If some fair coast have lured us to make stay,<br>Or some friend hail'd us to keep company.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ay! we would each fain drive<br>At random, and not steer by rule.<br>Weakness! and worse, weakness bestow'd in vain <br>Winds from our side the unsuiting consort rive,<br>We rush by coasts where we had lief remain;<br>Man cannot, though he would, live chance's fool.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No! as the foaming swath<br>Of torn-up water, on the main, <br>Falls heavily away with long-drawn roar<br>On either side the black deep-furrow'd path<br>Cut by an onward-labouring vessel's prore, <br>And never touches the ship-side again;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even so we leave behind, <br>As, charter'd by some unknown Powers<br>We stem across the sea of life by night <br>The joys which were not for our use design'd;--<br>The friends to whom we had no natural right,<br>The homes that were not destined to be ours.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Arnold">Matthew Arnold</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=456501" data-title="Human Life de Matthew Arnold" data-description="What mortal, when he saw, Life's voyage done, his heavenly Friend, Could ever yet dare tell him fearlessly: 'I have kept uninfringed my nature's law ; The inly-written chart thou gavest me, To guide me, I have steer'd by to the end'? Ah! let us..."></div> </div> </div>

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