<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507781" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To the Muse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Resign the rhapsody, the dream,<br>To men of larger reach;<br>Be ours the quest of a plain theme,<br>The piety of speech. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As monkish scribes from morning break<br>Toiled till the close of light,<br>Nor thought a day too long to make<br>One line or letter bright: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We also with an ardent mind,<br>Time, wealth, and fame forgot,<br>Our glory in our patience find<br>And skim, and skim the pot: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till last, when round the house we hear<br>The evensong of birds,<br>One corner of blue heaven appear<br>In our clear well of words. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leave, leave it then, muse of my heart!<br>Sans finish and sans frame,<br>Leave unadorned by needless art<br>The picture as it came.</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=507781" data-title="To the Muse de Robert Louis Stevenson" data-description="Resign the rhapsody, the dream, To men of larger reach; Be ours the quest of a plain theme, The piety of speech. As monkish scribes from morning break Toiled till the close of light, Nor thought a day too long to make One line or letter bright: ..."></div> </div> </div>

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