<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=525226" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Foundation Stone</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Would to be a foundation stone.<br>In soon to be to be<br>erected coming temple of man.<br>Rare are sculptured stones <br>wide be selected scattered <br>which may be laid be laid<br>to build what must be eventually.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Across lonely empty land <br>can a man rise <br>can he grow above <br>deceit deceptive human insight? <br>Would that I could withstand <br>remain in cleansing desert <br>for too numerous are snares.<br>Set in devious parts of city <br>lurking in blind alleyway. How <br>few have strength will <br>or reactions to avoid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life is hard and chokes <br>the feeble the weak the poor.<br>But desert sands have a mighty hunger <br>which would feast on flayed flesh <br>while its thirst is awesome <br>would drink very breath of being.<br>Could suck a succulent soul <br>to mere dry brittle bones <br>fit to be gnawed devoured <br>only by scavenging rats vermin. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In despoiled desert is not shame <br>burned by scourging sun <br>which flays fevered flesh <br>till it be black and lifeless?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</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=525226" data-title="Foundation Stone de Terence George Craddock" data-description="Would to be a foundation stone. In soon to be to be erected coming temple of man. Rare are sculptured stones wide be selected scattered which may be laid be laid to build what must be eventually. Across lonely empty land can a man rise can he..."></div> </div> </div>

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