<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536563" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Idler’s Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Months. October</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">GAMBLING AT MONACO</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A jewelled kingdom set impregnable<br>In gardens green which front the violet sea,<br>A happy fortress shut and guarded well,<br>And cradled ever on the mountain's knee:<br>Here Monsieur Blanc, sad prince of industry,<br>Has reared the palace which men call his hell:<br>And here in autumn days, when winds blow free,<br>Pleasure shall lead us to sin's citadel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas for vice! Yet, who dares moralize,<br>In the hushed rooms, where fortune reigns alway?<br>Her solemn priest, with chink of coin, replies<br>``Messieurs, faites votre jeu. Le jeu est fait.''<br>Who dares be wise, lest wisdom's self be vexed?<br>For all who come to preach remain to play.<br>Nay, leave poor vice, say I, her pleasant text,<br>Nor grudge her Heaven in this world with the next.</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=536563" data-title="The Idler’s Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Months. October de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="GAMBLING AT MONACO A jewelled kingdom set impregnable In gardens green which front the violet sea, A happy fortress shut and guarded well, And cradled ever on the mountain's knee: Here Monsieur Blanc, sad prince of industry, Has reared the palace..."></div> </div> </div>

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