<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537795" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Same By Palladas</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Spartan 'scaping from the fight,<br>His mother met him in his flight,<br>Upheld a falchion to his breast,<br>And thus the fugitive address'd:<br>'Thou canst but live to blot with shame<br>Indelible thy mother's name,<br>While every breath that thou shalt draw<br>Offends against thy country's law;<br>But if thou perish by this hand,<br>Myself indeed, throughout the land,<br>To my dishonor, shall be known<br>The mother still of such a son;<br>But Sparta will be safe and free<br>And that shall serve to comfort me.'</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=537795" data-title="On The Same By Palladas de William Cowper" data-description="A Spartan 'scaping from the fight, His mother met him in his flight, Upheld a falchion to his breast, And thus the fugitive address'd: 'Thou canst but live to blot with shame Indelible thy mother's name, While every breath that thou shalt draw Off..."></div> </div> </div>

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