<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509111" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To His Father</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Christ was your lord and captain all your life,<br>He fails the world but you he did not fail,<br>He led you through all forms of grief and strife<br>Intact, a man full-armed, he let prevail<br>Nor outward malice nor the worse-fanged snake<br>That coils in one's own brain against your calm,<br>That great rich jewel well guarded for his sake<br>With coronal age and death like quieting balm.<br>I Father having followed other guides<br>And oftener to my hurt no leader at all,<br>Through years nailed up like dripping panther hides<br>For trophies on a savage temple wall<br>Hardly anticipate that reverend stage<br>Of life, the snow-wreathed honor of extreme age.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robinson+Jeffers">Robinson Jeffers</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=509111" data-title="To His Father de Robinson Jeffers" data-description="Christ was your lord and captain all your life, He fails the world but you he did not fail, He led you through all forms of grief and strife Intact, a man full-armed, he let prevail Nor outward malice nor the worse-fanged snake That coils in one's..."></div> </div> </div>

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