<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508763" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Hearth-Stone</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The leaves are sick and jaundiced, they<br> Drift down the air;<br>December's sky is sodden grey,<br> Dark with despair;<br>A bleary dawn will light anon<br> A world of care.<br> <br>My name is cut into a stone,<br> No care have I;<br>The letters drool, as I alone<br> Forgotten lie:<br>With weed my grave is overgrown,<br> None cometh nigh.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A hundred hollow years will speed<br> As I decay;<br>And I'll be comrade to the weed,<br> Kin to the clay;<br>Until some hind in homing-need<br> Will pass my way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Until some lover seeking hearth<br> With joy will see<br>My nameless stone sunk in the earth<br> And it will be<br>The ruddy birth of childish mirth,<br> And elder glee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And none will dream it bore my name<br> Decades ago;<br>A scribbling fool of little fame,<br> Who loved life so . . .<br>Well, flesh is grass and Time must pass,--<br> Heigh ho! Heigh ho!</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=508763" data-title="The Hearth-Stone de Robert William Service" data-description="The leaves are sick and jaundiced, they Drift down the air; December's sky is sodden grey, Dark with despair; A bleary dawn will light anon A world of care. My name is cut into a stone, No care have I; The letters drool, as I alone Forgotte..."></div> </div> </div>

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