<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508938" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Vain Venture</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To have a business of my own<br> With toil and tears,<br>I wore my fingers to the bone<br> For weary years.<br>With stoic heart, for sordid gold<br> In patient pain<br>My life and liberty I sold<br> For others gain.<br> <br>I scrimped and scraped, as cent by cent<br> My savings grew;<br>I found a faded shop for rent,<br> Made it like new.<br>Above the door the paint was dry<br> Where glowed my name:<br>I waited there for folks to buy--<br> But no one came.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now I am back where I began:<br> Myself I sell.<br>I grovel to a greedy man,<br> And life is hell.<br>An empty shop of bankrupt shame<br> I pass before,<br>Seeing my bitter, bleary name<br> Above the door.</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=508938" data-title="Vain Venture de Robert William Service" data-description="To have a business of my own With toil and tears, I wore my fingers to the bone For weary years. With stoic heart, for sordid gold In patient pain My life and liberty I sold For others gain. I scrimped and scraped, as cent by cent My saving..."></div> </div> </div>

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