<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508603" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Reptiles And Roses</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">So crystal clear it is to me<br>That when I die I cease to be,<br>All else seems sheer stupidity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All promises of Paradise<br>Are wishful thinking, preacher's lies,<br>Dogmatic dust flung in our eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, life's immortal, swift it flows<br>Alike in reptile and in rose,<br>But as it comes, so too it goes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dead roses will not bloom again;<br>The lifeless lizard writhes in vain;<br>Cups shattered will not hold champagne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our breath is brief, and being so<br>Let's make our heaven here below,<br>And lavish kindness as we go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For when dour Death shall close the door<br>There will be darkness evermore;<br>So let us kneel in prayer before</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each day and let our duty be<br>To fight that mankind may be free . . .<br>There is our Immortality.</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=508603" data-title="Reptiles And Roses de Robert William Service" data-description="So crystal clear it is to me That when I die I cease to be, All else seems sheer stupidity. All promises of Paradise Are wishful thinking, preacher's lies, Dogmatic dust flung in our eyes. Yea, life's immortal, swift it flows Alike in reptile an..."></div> </div> </div>

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