<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507715" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet VII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The strong man's hand, the snow-cool head of age,<br>The certain-footed sympathies of youth -<br>These, and that lofty passion after truth,<br>Hunger unsatisfied in priest or sage<br>Or the great men of former years, he needs<br>That not unworthily would dare to sing<br>(Hard task!) black care's inevitable ring<br>Settling with years upon the heart that feeds<br>Incessantly on glory. Year by year<br>The narrowing toil grows closer round his feet;<br>With disenchanting touch rude-handed time<br>The unlovely web discloses, and strange fear<br>Leads him at last to eld's inclement seat,<br>The bitter north of life - a frozen clime.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Louis+Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</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=507715" data-title="Sonnet VII de Robert Louis Stevenson" data-description="The strong man's hand, the snow-cool head of age, The certain-footed sympathies of youth - These, and that lofty passion after truth, Hunger unsatisfied in priest or sage Or the great men of former years, he needs That not unworthily would dare to..."></div> </div> </div>

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