<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529202" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Threnody</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon your hearse this flower I lay <br>Brief be your sleep! You shall be known <br>When lesser men have had their day: <br>Fame blossoms where true seed is sown, <br>Or soon or late, let Time wound what it may.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unvext by any dream of fame, <br>You smiled, and bade the world pass by: <br>But I--I turned, and saw a name <br>Shaping itself against the sky-- <br>White star that rose amid the battle's flame!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Brief be your sleep, for I would see <br>Your laurels--ah, how trivial now <br>To him must earthly laurel be <br>Who wears the amaranth on his brow! <br>How vain the voices of mortality!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Bailey+Aldrich">Thomas Bailey Aldrich</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=529202" data-title="Threnody de Thomas Bailey Aldrich" data-description="I Upon your hearse this flower I lay Brief be your sleep! You shall be known When lesser men have had their day: Fame blossoms where true seed is sown, Or soon or late, let Time wound what it may. II Unvext by any dream of fame, You smiled..."></div> </div> </div>

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