<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=532729" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Alchemist's Petition</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou wilt not sentence to eternal life<br>My soul that prays that it may sleep and sleep<br>Like a white statue dropped into the deep,<br>Covered with sand, covered with chests of gold,<br>And slave-bones, tossed from many a pirate hold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But for this prayer thou wilt not bind in Hell<br>My soul, that shook with love for Fame and Truth—<br>In Such unquenched desires consumed his youth—<br>Let me turn dust, like dead leaves in the Fall,<br>Or wood that lights an hour your knightly hall— </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Amen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Vachel+Lindsay">Vachel Lindsay</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=532729" data-title="The Alchemist's Petition de Vachel Lindsay" data-description="Thou wilt not sentence to eternal life My soul that prays that it may sleep and sleep Like a white statue dropped into the deep, Covered with sand, covered with chests of gold, And slave-bones, tossed from many a pirate hold. But for this prayer ..."></div> </div> </div>

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