<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=456514" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Self-Dependence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weary of myself, and sick of asking<br>What I am, and what I ought to be,<br>At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me<br>Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And a look of passionate desire<br>O'er the sea and to the stars I send:<br>'Ye who from my childhood up have calm'd me,<br>Calm me, ah, compose me to the end!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Ah, once more,' I cried, 'ye stars, ye waters,<br>On my heart your mighty charm renew; <br>Still, still let me, as I gaze upon you,<br>Feel my soul becoming vast like you!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From the intense, clear, star-sown vault of heaven,<br>Over the lit sea's unquiet way,<br>In the rustling night-air came the answer:<br>'Wouldst thou be as these are? Live as they.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Unaffrighted by the silence round them,<br>Undistracted by the sights they see,<br>These demand not that the things without them<br>Yield them love, amusement, sympathy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And with joy the stars perform their shining,<br>And the sea its long moon-silver'd roll;<br>For self-poised they live, nor pine with noting<br>All the fever of some differing soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Bounded by themselves, and unregardful<br>In what state God's other works may be,<br>In their own tasks all their powers pouring,<br>These attain the mighty life you see.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O air-born voice! long since, severely clear,<br>A cry like thine in mine own heart I hear:<br>'Resolve to be thyself; and know that he,<br>Who finds himself, loses his misery!'</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=456514" data-title="Self-Dependence de Matthew Arnold" data-description="Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea. And a look of passionate desire O'er the sea and to the stars I send: 'Ye who from my c..."></div> </div> </div>

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