<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=532882" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dust unto Dust</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The briny tears have dried<br>The sounding knells are stilled<br>The grieving crowd, dispersed<br>The parting pain, allayed </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Benumbed lie the dead<br>Beneath the marble vaults<br>Bereft of power and prowess<br>Benighted and beaten.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sun shall never cast its glorious rays<br>The stars shall never their brilliance shed<br>The breeze never shall bring tidings new<br>The showers shall no more drench them through</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A thoughtful friend sometimes seen around<br>A fervent prayer at times chanted aloud<br>A plaited wreath, rarely laid over<br>A trite rite, randomly carried out</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's none left to mourn or weep<br>Nor anyone to sing, sigh or sob<br>Leaving the dead to rot in the closure of graves<br>To life's alluring charms, the dear depart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cold as clay the dead lie so still<br>To be feasted on by maggots and the worms<br>Life with all its glory - defunct<br>Its fever and fret too - extinct.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How in vain we run after wealth<br>The power and position we deem so great<br>Shall come to naught within Time's gloomy vault<br>Yet we run and yet we straggle behind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In vain ends our travail for might<br>Inglorious is our quest after fame<br>Transient turn the riches, we garner<br>Short lived is their gleam and glitter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh Lord! Lead us not into illusory charms<br>Deliver us of our avarice to hoard<br>For all that is born and made<br>‘Must consign to death and come to dust.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Valsa+George">Valsa George</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=532882" data-title="Dust unto Dust de Valsa George" data-description="The briny tears have dried The sounding knells are stilled The grieving crowd, dispersed The parting pain, allayed Benumbed lie the dead Beneath the marble vaults Bereft of power and prowess Benighted and beaten. The sun shall never cast its gl..."></div> </div> </div>

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