<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477788" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Prometheus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prometheus stole from Heaven the sacred fire<br>And swept to earth with it o'er land and sea.<br>He lit the vestal flames of poesy,<br>Content, for this, to brave celestial ire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wroth were the gods, and with eternal hate<br>Pursued the fearless one who ravished Heaven<br>That earth might hold in fee the perfect leaven<br>To lift men's souls above their low estate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But judge you now, when poets wield the pen,<br>Think you not well the wrong has been repaired?<br>'Twas all in vain that ill Prometheus fared:<br>The fire has been returned to Heaven again!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have no singers like the ones whose note<br>Gave challenge to the noblest warbler's song.<br>We have no voice so mellow, sweet, and strong<br>As that which broke from Shelley's golden throat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The measure of our songs is our desires:<br>We tinkle where old poets used to storm.<br>We lack their substance tho' we keep their form:<br>We strum our banjo-strings and call them lyres.</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=477788" data-title="Prometheus de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="Prometheus stole from Heaven the sacred fire And swept to earth with it o'er land and sea. He lit the vestal flames of poesy, Content, for this, to brave celestial ire. Wroth were the gods, and with eternal hate Pursued the fearless one who ravis..."></div> </div> </div>

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