<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477719" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Life's Tragedy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It may be misery not to sing at all, <br>And to go silent through the brimming day; <br>It may be misery never to be loved, <br>But deeper griefs than these beset the way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To sing the perfect song, <br>And by a half-tone lost the key, <br>There the potent sorrow, there the grief, <br>The pale, sad staring of Life's Tragedy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To have come near to the perfect love, <br>Not the hot passion of untempered youth, <br>But that which lies aside its vanity, <br>And gives, for thy trusting worship, truth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This, this indeed is to be accursed, <br>For if we mortals love, or if we sing, <br>We count our joys not by what we have, <br>But by what kept us from that perfect thing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</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=477719" data-title="Life's Tragedy de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="It may be misery not to sing at all, And to go silent through the brimming day; It may be misery never to be loved, But deeper griefs than these beset the way. To sing the perfect song, And by a half-tone lost the key, There the potent sorro..."></div> </div> </div>

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