<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538696" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Atra Cura</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before I lost my five poor wits,<br>I mind me of a Romish clerk,<br>Who sang how Care, the phantom dark,<br>Beside the belted horseman sits.<br>Methought I saw the grisly sprite<br>Jump up but now behind my Knight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And though he gallop as he may,<br>I mark that cursed monster black<br>Still sits behind his honor's back,<br>Tight squeezing of his heart alway.<br>Like two black Templars sit they there,<br>Beside one crupper, Knight and Care.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No knight am I with pennoned spear,<br>To prance upon a bold destrere:<br>I will not have black Care prevail<br>Upon my long-eared charger's tail,<br>For lo, I am a witless fool,<br>And laugh at Grief and ride a mule.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Makepeace+Thackeray">William Makepeace Thackeray</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=538696" data-title="Atra Cura de William Makepeace Thackeray" data-description="Before I lost my five poor wits, I mind me of a Romish clerk, Who sang how Care, the phantom dark, Beside the belted horseman sits. Methought I saw the grisly sprite Jump up but now behind my Knight. And though he gallop as he may, I mark that cu..."></div> </div> </div>

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