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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537291" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Three Beggars</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">i{&quot;Though to my feathers in the wet,}<br>i{I have stood here from break of day.}<br>i{I have not found a thing to eat,}<br>i{For only rubbish comes my way.}<br>i{Am I to live on lebeen-lone?'}<br>i{Muttered the old crane of Gort.}<br>i{&quot;For all my pains on lebeen-lone?'}<br>King Guaire walked amid his court<br>The palace-yard and river-side<br>And there to three old beggars said,<br>&quot;You that have wandered far and wide<br>Can ravel out what's in my head.<br>Do men who least desire get most,<br>Or get the most who most desire?'<br>A beggar said, &quot;They get the most<br>Whom man or devil cannot tire,<br>And what could make their muscles taut<br>Unless desire had made them so?'<br>But Guaire laughed with secret thought,<br>&quot;If that be true as it seems true,<br>One of you three is a rich man,<br>For he shall have a thousand pounds<br>Who is first asleep, if but he can<br>Sleep before the third noon sounds.&quot;<br>And thereon, merry as a bird<br>With his old thoughts, King Guaire went<br>From river-side and palace-yard<br>And left them to their argument.<br>&quot;And if I win,' one beggar said,<br>'Though I am old I shall persuade<br>A pretty girl to share my bed';<br>The second: &quot;I shall learn a trade';<br>The third: &quot;I'll hurry' to the course<br>Among the other gentlemen,<br>And lay it all upon a horse';<br>The second: &quot;I have thought again:<br>A farmer has more dignity.'<br>One to another sighed and cried:<br>The exorbitant dreams of beggary.<br>That idleness had borne to pride,<br>Sang through their teeth from noon to noon;<br>And when the sccond twilight brought<br>The frenzy of the beggars' moon<br>None closed his blood-shot eyes but sought<br>To keep his fellows from their sleep;<br>All shouted till their anger grew<br>And they were whirling in a heap.<br>They mauled and bit the whole night through;<br>They mauled and bit till the day shone;<br>They mauled and bit through all that day<br>And till another night had gone,<br>Or if they made a moment's stay<br>They sat upon their heels to rail,,<br>And when old Guaire came and stood<br>Before the three to end this tale,<br>They were commingling lice and blood<br>&quot;Time's up,' he cried, and all the three<br>With blood-shot eyes upon him stared.<br>&quot;Time's up,' he eried, and all the three<br>Fell down upon the dust and snored.<br>1</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>
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i{I have stood here from break of day.}
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i{Muttered the old crane of Gort.}
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