<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529685" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Subalterns</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I<br>'Poor wanderer,' said the leaden sky,<br>'I fain would lighten thee,<br>But there are laws in force on high<br>Which say it must not be.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">-'I would not freeze thee, shorn one,' cried<br>The North, 'knew I but how<br>To warm my breath, to slack my stride;<br>But I am ruled as thou.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">-'To-morrow I attack thee, wight,'<br>Said Sickness. 'Yet I swear<br>I bear thy little ark no spite,<br>But am bid enter there.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">-'Come hither, Son,' I heard Death say;<br>'I did not will a grave<br>Should end thy pilgrimage to-day,<br>But I, too, am a slave!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We smiled upon each other then,<br>And life to me had less<br>Of that fell look it wore ere when <br>They owned their passiveness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Hardy">Thomas Hardy</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=529685" data-title="The Subalterns de Thomas Hardy" data-description="I 'Poor wanderer,' said the leaden sky, 'I fain would lighten thee, But there are laws in force on high Which say it must not be.' II -'I would not freeze thee, shorn one,' cried The North, 'knew I but how To warm my breath, to slack my stride; ..."></div> </div> </div>

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