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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508552" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Old Trouper</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was Mojeska's leading man<br>And famous parts I used to play,<br>But now I do the best I can<br>To earn my bread from day to day;<br>Here in this Burg of Breaking Hears,<br>Where one wins as a thousand fail,<br>I play a score of scurvy parts<br>Till Time writes Finis to my tale.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My wife is dead, my daughter wed,<br>With heaps of trouble of their own;<br>And though I hold aloft my head<br>I'm humble, scared and all alone . . .<br>To-night I burn each photograph,<br>Each record of my former fame,<br>And oh, how bitterly I laugh<br>And feed them to the hungry flame!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behold how handsome I was then -<br>What glowing eye, what noble mien;<br>I towered above my fellow men,<br>And proudly strode the painted scene.<br>Ah, Vanity! What fools are we,<br>With empty ends and foolish aims . . .<br>There now, I fling with savage glee<br>My David Garrick to the flames.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Is this a dagger that I see&quot;:<br>Oh, how I used to love that speech;<br>We were old-fashioned - &quot;hams&quot; maybe,<br>Yet we Young Arrogance could teach.<br>&quot;Out, out brief candle!&quot; There are gone<br>My Lear, my Hamlet and MacBeth;<br>And now by ashes cold and wan<br>I wait my cue, my prompter Death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This life of ours is just a play;<br>Its end is fashioned from the start;<br>Fate writes each word we have to say,<br>And puppet-like we strut our part.<br>Once I wore laurels on my brow,<br>But now I wait, a sorry clown,<br>To make my furtive, farewell bow . . .<br>Haste Time! Oh, ring the Curtain down.</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>
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And famous parts I used to play,
But now I do the best I can
To earn my bread from day to day;
Here in this Burg of Breaking Hears,
Where one wins as a thousand fail,
I play a score of scurvy parts
Till Time writes Fini..."></div>
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