<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508388" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ignorance</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh happy he who cannot see<br> With scientific eyes;<br>Who does not know how flowers grow,<br> And is not planet wise;<br>Content to find with simple mind<br> Joys as they are:<br>To whom a rose is just a rose,<br> A star--a star.<br> <br>It is not good, I deem, to brood<br> On things beyond our ken;<br>A rustic I would live and die,<br> Aloof from learned men;<br>And laugh and sing with zest of Spring<br> In life's exultant scene,--<br>For vain my be philosophy,<br> And what does meaning mean?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm talking rot,--I'm really not<br> As dumb as I pretend;<br>But happiness, I dimly guess,<br> Is what counts in the end.<br>To educate is to dilate<br> The nerves of pain:<br>So let us give up books and live<br> Like hinds again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The best of wisdom surely is<br> To be not overwise;<br>For may not thought be evil fraught,<br> And truth less kind than lies?<br>So let me praise the golden days<br> I played a gay guitar,<br>And deemed a rose was just a rose,<br> A star--a star.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</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=508388" data-title="Ignorance de Robert William Service" data-description="Oh happy he who cannot see With scientific eyes; Who does not know how flowers grow, And is not planet wise; Content to find with simple mind Joys as they are: To whom a rose is just a rose, A star--a star. It is not good, I deem, to brood ..."></div> </div> </div>

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