<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523178" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Reading A Dictacted Letter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear Friend, methinks when thus thy plenary soul<br>Speaks from yon pale default that lies so low,<br>The hale and stalwart by thy couch must know<br>Such fond intoleration to be whole<br>As he, who, where the storms of battle roll,<br>Himself unthrown beholds the cannon throw<br>His father at his feet, and, while a woe<br>Of splendid shame dements him to that sole<br>Passion, above the fallen field looks round<br>The red conversion of the baptized ground<br>For aught whereon to spend his sanguine wealth<br>And, seeking not the value but the cost,<br>Rushes to win whatever, won or lost,<br>May end this gross unwounded infamy of health.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sydney+Thompson+Dobell">Sydney Thompson Dobell</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=523178" data-title="On Reading A Dictacted Letter de Sydney Thompson Dobell" data-description="Dear Friend, methinks when thus thy plenary soul Speaks from yon pale default that lies so low, The hale and stalwart by thy couch must know Such fond intoleration to be whole As he, who, where the storms of battle roll, Himself unthrown beholds t..."></div> </div> </div>

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