<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507036" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Solitary</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have been lonely all my days on earth,<br>Living a life within my secret soul,<br>With mine own springs of sorrow and of mirth,<br>Beyond the world's control.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though sometimes with vain longing I have sought<br>To walk the paths where other mortals tread,<br>To wear the clothes for other mortals wrought,<br>And eat the selfsame bread -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet have I ever found, when thus I strove<br>To mould my life upon the common plan,<br>That I was furthest from all truth and love,<br>And least a living man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Truth frowned upon my poor hypocrisy,<br>Life left my soul, and dwelt but in my sense;<br>No man could love me, for all men could see<br>The hollow vain pretence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their clothes sat on me with outlandish air,<br>Upon their easy road I tripped and fell,<br>And still I sickened of the wholesome fare<br>On which they nourished well.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was a stranger in that company,<br>A Galilean whom his speech bewrayed,<br>And when they lifted up their songs of glee,<br>My voice sad discord made.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Peace for mine own self I could never find,<br>And still my presence marred the general peace,<br>And when I parted, leaving them behind,<br>They felt, and I, release.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So will I follow now my spirit's bent,<br>Not scorning those who walk the beaten track,<br>Yet not despising mine own banishment,<br>Nor often looking back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their way is best for them, but mine for me.<br>And there is comfort for my lonely heart,<br>To think perhaps our journeys' ends may be<br>Not very far apart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Fuller+Murray">Robert Fuller Murray</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=507036" data-title="The Solitary de Robert Fuller Murray" data-description="I have been lonely all my days on earth, Living a life within my secret soul, With mine own springs of sorrow and of mirth, Beyond the world's control. Though sometimes with vain longing I have sought To walk the paths where other mortals tread, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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