<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472552" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dying Seneca</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">HE died not as the martyr dies,<br>Wrapped in his living shroud of flame;<br>He fell not as the warrior falls,<br>Gasping upon the field of fame; <br>A gentler passage to the grave,<br>The murderer's softened fury gave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rome's slaughtered sons and blazing piles<br>Had tracked the purpled demon's path,<br>And yet another victim lived<br>To fill the fiery scroll of wrath;<br>Could not imperial vengeance spare<br>His furrowed brow and silver hair?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The field was sown with noble blood,<br>The harvest reaped in burning tears,<br>When, rolling up its crimson flood,<br>Broke the long-gathering tide of years;<br>His diadem was rent away,<br>And beggars trampled on his clay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">None wept, -none pitied;- they who knelt<br>At morning by the despot's throne,<br>At evening dashed the laurelled bust,<br>And spurned the wreaths themselves had strown;<br>The shout of triumph echoed wide,<br>The self-stung reptile writhed and died!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</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=472552" data-title="The Dying Seneca de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="HE died not as the martyr dies, Wrapped in his living shroud of flame; He fell not as the warrior falls, Gasping upon the field of fame; A gentler passage to the grave, The murderer's softened fury gave. Rome's slaughtered sons and blazing piles..."></div> </div> </div>

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