<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536404" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: VII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had made my round, as yet with little gain<br>Of undiscovered good in that gay place.<br>I had sought my share of pleasure, but in vain.<br>Laughter was not for me, and hid her face.<br>I had asked for mirth. The oracles were dumb.<br>No sound of Folly with her tinkling feet<br>Had bid my own feet follow, and no home<br>Was mine for merriment or musings sweet.<br>I had ceased to hope and almost ceased to seek,<br>When, from the farthest booth of all, the bray<br>Of brass and drums and fiddling and the shriek<br>Of a dwarf's voice invited me to stay.<br>The crowd, as scenting some more mirthful thing,<br>Surged round that booth agape and wondering.</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=536404" data-title="Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: VII de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="I had made my round, as yet with little gain Of undiscovered good in that gay place. I had sought my share of pleasure, but in vain. Laughter was not for me, and hid her face. I had asked for mirth. The oracles were dumb. No sound of Folly with he..."></div> </div> </div>

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