<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480899" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Loss And Gain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Virtue runs before the muse<br>And defies her skill,<br>She is rapt, and doth refuse<br>To wait a painter's will.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Star-adoring, occupied,<br>Virtue cannot bend her,<br>Just to please a poet's pride,<br>To parade her splendor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bard must be with good intent<br>No more his, but hers,<br>Throw away his pen and paint,<br>Kneel with worshippers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, perchance, a sunny ray<br>From the heaven of fire,<br>His lost tools may over-pay,<br>And better his desire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ralph+Waldo+Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</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=480899" data-title="Loss And Gain de Ralph Waldo Emerson" data-description="Virtue runs before the muse And defies her skill, She is rapt, and doth refuse To wait a painter's will. Star-adoring, occupied, Virtue cannot bend her, Just to please a poet's pride, To parade her splendor. The bard must be with good intent No ..."></div> </div> </div>

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