<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536635" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXXXII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">HE WOULD LEAD A BETTER LIFE<br>I am tired of folly, tired of my own ways,<br>Love is a strife. I do not want to strive.<br>If I had foes I now would make my peace.<br>If I less wedded were I now would wive.<br>I would do service to my kind, contrive<br>Something of good for men, some happiness<br>For those who in the world still love and live,<br>And, as my fathers did, so end my days.<br>I would earn praise, I too, of honest men.<br>I would repent in sackcloth if needs be.<br>I would serve God and expiate my sin,<br>Abjuring love and thee--ay, even thee.<br>I would do this, dear love. But what am I<br>To will or do? As we have lived we die.</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=536635" data-title="The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXXXII de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="HE WOULD LEAD A BETTER LIFE I am tired of folly, tired of my own ways, Love is a strife. I do not want to strive. If I had foes I now would make my peace. If I less wedded were I now would wive. I would do service to my kind, contrive Something of..."></div> </div> </div>

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