<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537005" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Man Young And Old: XI. From Oedipus At Colonus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span;<br>Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man;<br>Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even from that delight memory treasures so,<br>Death, despair, division of families, all entanglements of mankind grow,<br>As that old wandering beggar and these God-hated children know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the long echoing street the laughing dancers throng,<br>The bride is carried to the bridegroom's chamber through torchlight and tumultuous song;<br>I celebrate the silent kiss that ends short life or long.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say;<br>Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day;<br>The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Butler+Yeats">William Butler Yeats</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=537005" data-title="A Man Young And Old: XI. From Oedipus At Colonus de William Butler Yeats" data-description="Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain. Even from that delight memory treasures so, Death, despair, division o..."></div> </div> </div>

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