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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538162" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Double Ballade on the Nothingness of Things</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The big teetotum twirls, <br>And epochs wax and wane <br>As chance subsides or swirls; <br>But of the loss and gain <br>The sum is always plain. <br>Read on the mighty pall, <br>The weed of funeral <br>That covers praise and blame, <br>The -isms and the -anities, <br>Magnificence and shame:-- <br>&quot;O Vanity of Vanities!&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Fates are subtle girls! <br>They give us chaff for grain. <br>And Time, the Thunderer, hurls, <br>Like bolted death, disdain <br>At all that heart and brain <br>Conceive, or great or small, <br>Upon this earthly ball. <br>Would you be knight and dame? <br>Or woo the sweet humanities? <br>Or illustrate a name? <br>O Vanity of Vanities! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We sound the sea for pearls, <br>Or drown them in a drain; <br>We flute it with the merles, <br>Or tug and sweat and strain; <br>We grovel, or we reign; <br>We saunter, or we brawl; <br>We search the stars for Fame, <br>Or sink her subterranities; <br>The legend's still the same:-- <br>&quot;O Vanity of Vanities!&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here at the wine one birls, <br>There some one clanks a chain. <br>The flag that this man furls <br>That man to float is fain. <br>Pleasure gives place to pain: <br>These in the kennel crawl, <br>While others take the wall. <br>She has a glorious aim, <br>He lives for the inanities. <br>What come of every claim? <br>O Vanity of Vanities! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alike are clods and earls. <br>For sot, and seer, and swain, <br>For emperors and for churls, <br>For antidote and bane, <br>There is but one refrain: <br>But one for king and thrall, <br>For David and for Saul, <br>For fleet of foot and lame, <br>For pieties and profanities, <br>The picture and the frame:-- <br>&quot;O Vanity of Vanities!&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life is a smoke that curls-- <br>Curls in a flickering skein, <br>That winds and whisks and whirls, <br>A figment thin and vain, <br>Into the vast Inane. <br>One end for hut and hall! <br>One end for cell and stall! <br>Burned in one common flame <br>Are wisdoms and insanities. <br>For this alone we came:-- <br>&quot;O Vanity of Vanities!&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Envoy <br>Prince, pride must have a fall. <br>What is the worth of all <br>Your state's supreme urbanities? <br>Bad at the best's the game. <br>Well might the Sage exclaim:-- <br>&quot;O Vanity of Vanities!&quot;</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>
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And epochs wax and wane 
As chance subsides or swirls; 
But of the loss and gain 
The sum is always plain. 
Read on the mighty pall, 
The weed of funeral 
That covers praise and blame, 
The -isms and the -anities, 
Magnif..."></div>
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