<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477802" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Robert Gould Shaw</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why was it that the thunder voice of Fate<br>Should call thee, studious, from the classic groves,<br>Where calm-eyed Pallas with still footsteps roves,<br>And charge thee seek the turmoil of the State?<br>What bade thee hear the voice and rise elate,<br>Leave home and kindred and thy spicy loaves,<br>To lead th' unlettered and despised droves<br>To manhood's home and thunder at the gate?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Far better the slow blaze of Learning's light,<br>The cool and quiet of her dearer fane,<br>Than this hot terror of a hopeless fight,<br>This cold endurance of the final pain,-<br>Since thou and those who with thee died for right<br>Have died, the Present teaches, but in vain!</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=477802" data-title="Robert Gould Shaw de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="Why was it that the thunder voice of Fate Should call thee, studious, from the classic groves, Where calm-eyed Pallas with still footsteps roves, And charge thee seek the turmoil of the State? What bade thee hear the voice and rise elate, Leave ho..."></div> </div> </div>

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