<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538148" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Before</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behold me waiting-waiting for the knife.<br>A little while, and at a leap I storm<br>The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform,<br>The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.<br>The gods are good to me: I have no wife,<br>No innocent child, to think of as I near<br>The fateful minute; nothing all-too dear<br>Unmans me for my bout of passive strife.<br>Yet am I tremulous and a trifle sick,<br>And, face to face with chance, I shrink a little:<br>My hopes are strong, my will is something weak.<br>Here comes the basket? Thank you. I am ready.<br>But, gentlemen my porters, life is brittle:<br>You carry Caesar and his fortunes-steady!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Ernest+Henley">William Ernest Henley</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=538148" data-title="Before de William Ernest Henley" data-description="Behold me waiting-waiting for the knife. A little while, and at a leap I storm The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life. The gods are good to me: I have no wife, No innocent child, to think of as I near Th..."></div> </div> </div>

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