<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537653" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mortals! Around Your Destined Heads</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mortals! around your destined heads<br>Thick fly the shafts of death,<br>And lo! the savage spoiler spreads<br>A thousand toils beneath.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In vain we trifle with our fate,<br>Try every art in vain;<br>At best we but prolong the date,<br>And lengthen out our pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fondly we think all danger fled,<br>For death is ever nigh;<br>Outstrips our unavailing speed,<br>Or meets us as we fly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus the wrecked mariner may strive<br>Some desert shore to gain,<br>Secure of life, if he survive<br>The fury of the main.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But there, to famine doomed a prey,<br>Finds the mistaken wretch<br>He but escaped the troubled sea,<br>To perish on the beach.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since then in vain we strive to guard<br>Our frailty from the foe,<br>Lord, let me live not unprepared <br>To meet the fatal blow!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</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=537653" data-title="Mortals! Around Your Destined Heads de William Cowper" data-description="Mortals! around your destined heads Thick fly the shafts of death, And lo! the savage spoiler spreads A thousand toils beneath. In vain we trifle with our fate, Try every art in vain; At best we but prolong the date, And lengthen out our pain. F..."></div> </div> </div>

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