<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536431" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXVI</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I linger on the threshold of my youth.<br>If you could see me now as then I was,<br>A fair--faced frightened boy with eyes of truth<br>Scared at the world yet angry at its laws,<br>Plotting all plots, a blushing Cataline<br>Betrayed by his own cheeks, a misanthrope<br>In love with all things human and divine,<br>The very fool of fortune and high hope,<br>You would deny you knew me. Oh, the days<br>Of our absurd first manhood, rich in force,<br>Rich in desire of happiness and praise<br>Yet impotent in its heroic course,<br>And all for lack of that one worthless thing,<br>Knowledge of life and love and suffering!</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=536431" data-title="Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXVI de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="I linger on the threshold of my youth. If you could see me now as then I was, A fair--faced frightened boy with eyes of truth Scared at the world yet angry at its laws, Plotting all plots, a blushing Cataline Betrayed by his own cheeks, a misanthr..."></div> </div> </div>

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