<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508582" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Portrait</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because life's passing show<br> Is little to his mind,<br>There is a man I know<br> Indrawn from human kind.<br>His dearest friends are books;<br> Yet oh how glad he talks<br>To birds and trees and brooks<br> On lonely walks.<br>He takes the same still way<br> By grove and hill and sea;<br>He lives that each new day<br> May like the last one be.<br>He hates all kinds of change;<br> His step is sure and slow:<br>Though life has little range<br> He loves it so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He makes it his one aim<br> His pleasure to repeat;<br>To always do the same,<br> Since sameness is so sweet;<br>In simple things to find<br> The dearest to his mood.<br>His true life in his mind<br> Is oh so good!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Please leave him to his dream,<br> This old, unweary man,<br>Who shuns the busy stream<br> And has outlived his span.<br>Just leave him on his shelf<br> To watch the world go by . . .<br>Because he is--myself:<br> Yea, such be I.</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=508582" data-title="Portrait de Robert William Service" data-description="Because life's passing show Is little to his mind, There is a man I know Indrawn from human kind. His dearest friends are books; Yet oh how glad he talks To birds and trees and brooks On lonely walks. He takes the same still way By grove and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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