<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536392" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: IV</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And thus it is. The tale I have to tell<br>Is such another. He who reads shall find<br>That which he brings to it of Heaven or Hell<br>For his best recompense where much is blind,<br>A jest--book or a sermon or mere wind,--<br>Each as he may,--for life's least godly mirth<br>Is mingled strangely here with fate unkind,<br>And this is a true story of the Earth.<br>The passionate heart of youth with its desires<br>Is not all noble, and some baseness clings<br>For ever mixed with its eternal fires,<br>Else were it single among human things.<br>And all life's wisdom learns but this last plan,<br>To jest at tears and weep Man's mirth and Man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wilfrid+Scawen+Blunt">Wilfrid Scawen Blunt</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=536392" data-title="Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: IV de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="And thus it is. The tale I have to tell Is such another. He who reads shall find That which he brings to it of Heaven or Hell For his best recompense where much is blind, A jest--book or a sermon or mere wind,-- Each as he may,--for life's least g..."></div> </div> </div>

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