<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477856" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The King Is Dead</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aye, lay him in his grave, the old dead year!<br>His life is lived--fulfilled his destiny.<br>Have you for him no sad, regretful tear<br>To drop beside the cold, unfollowed bier?<br>Can you not pay the tribute of a sigh?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Was he not kind to you, this dead old year?<br>Did he not give enough of earthly store?<br>Enough of love, and laughter, and good cheer?<br>Have not the skies you scanned sometimes been clear?<br>How, then, of him who dies, could you ask more?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is not well to hate him for the pain<br>He brought you, and the sorrows manifold.<br>To pardon him these hurts still I am fain;<br>For in the panting period of his reign,<br>He brought me new wounds, but he healed the old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One little sigh for thee, my poor, dead friend--<br>One little sigh while my companions sing.<br>Thou art so soon forgotten in the end;<br>We cry e'en as thy footsteps downward tend:<br>'The king is dead! long live the king!'</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=477856" data-title="The King Is Dead de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="Aye, lay him in his grave, the old dead year! His life is lived--fulfilled his destiny. Have you for him no sad, regretful tear To drop beside the cold, unfollowed bier? Can you not pay the tribute of a sigh? Was he not kind to you, this dead old..."></div> </div> </div>

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