<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519154" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bat, Bat, Come Under my Hat</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(A Modernity)<br> Twelve good friends<br> Passed under her hat,<br> And devil a one of them<br> Knew where he was at.<br> Had they but known,<br> Then had they known all things, --<br> The littleness of great things,<br> The unmeasured immensity of small things.<br> They had known the Where and the Why,<br> The When and the Wherefore,<br> And how the Eternal<br> Conceived the Eternal, and therefore<br> Beginning began the Beginning;<br> They had apprehended<br> The ultimate virtue of sinning;<br> They had caught the whisper<br> That Vega vibrates to Arcturus,<br> Piercing the walls<br> Of heavy flesh that immure us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> But if they had known,<br> Then had there been no mystery;<br> And Life had been poorer,<br> And laughter unsurer,<br> And the shadow of death securer,<br> By lack of this brief history.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sir+Charles+George+Douglas+Roberts">Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts</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=519154" data-title="Bat, Bat, Come Under my Hat de Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts" data-description="(A Modernity) Twelve good friends Passed under her hat, And devil a one of them Knew where he was at. Had they but known, Then had they known all things, -- The littleness of great things, The unmeasured immensity of small things. They ha..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black