<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477880" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Paradox</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am the mother of sorrows, <br>I am the ender of grief; <br>I am the bud and the blossom, <br>I am the late-falling leaf.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am thy priest and thy poet, <br>I am thy serf and thy king; <br>I cure the tears of the heartsick, <br>When I come near they shall sing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">White are my hands as the snowdrop; <br>Swart are my fingers as clay; <br>Dark is my frown as the midnight, <br>Fair is my brow as the day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Battle and war are my minions, <br>Doing my will as divine; <br>I am the calmer of passions, <br>Peace is a nursling of mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Speak to me gently or curse me, <br>Seek me or fly from my sight; <br>I am thy fool in the morning, <br>Thou art my slave in the night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Down to the grave I will take thee, <br>Out from the noise of the strife, <br>Then shalt thou see me and know me-- <br>Death, then, no longer, but life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then shalt thou sing at my coming, <br>Kiss me with passionate breath, <br>Clasp me and smile to have thought me <br>Aught save the foeman of death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come to me, brother, when weary, <br>Come when thy lonely heart swells; <br>I'll guide thy footsteps and lead thee <br>Down where the Dream Woman dwells.</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=477880" data-title="The Paradox de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="I am the mother of sorrows, I am the ender of grief; I am the bud and the blossom, I am the late-falling leaf. I am thy priest and thy poet, I am thy serf and thy king; I cure the tears of the heartsick, When I come near they shall sing. W..."></div> </div> </div>

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