<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536660" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: XCVI</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ON THE SHORTNESS OF TIME<br>If I could live without the thought of death,<br>Forgetful of time's waste, the soul's decay,<br>I would not ask for other joy than breath<br>With light and sound of birds and the sun's ray.<br>I could sit on untroubled day by day<br>Watching the grass grow, and the wild flowers range<br>From blue to yellow and from red to grey<br>In natural sequence as the seasons change.<br>I could afford to wait, but for the hurt<br>Of this dull tick of time which chides my ear.<br>But now I dare not sit with loins ungirt<br>And staff unlifted, for death stands too near.<br>I must be up and doing--ay, each minute.<br>The grave gives time for rest when we are in it.</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=536660" data-title="The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: XCVI de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="ON THE SHORTNESS OF TIME If I could live without the thought of death, Forgetful of time's waste, the soul's decay, I would not ask for other joy than breath With light and sound of birds and the sun's ray. I could sit on untroubled day by day Wat..."></div> </div> </div>

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