<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539824" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Mock Self</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Few friends are mine, though many wights there be<br>Who, meeting oft a phantasm that makes claim<br>To be myself, and hath my face and name,<br>And whose thin fraud I wink at privily,<br>Account this light impostor very me.<br>What boots it undeceive them, and proclaim<br>Myself myself, and whelm this cheat with shame?<br>I care not, so he leave my true self free,<br>Impose not on me also; but alas!<br>I too, at fault, bewildered, sometimes take<br>Him for myself, and far from mine own sight,<br>Torpid, indifferent, doth mine own self pass;<br>And yet anon leaps suddenly awake,<br>And spurns the gibbering mime into the night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Watson">William Watson</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=539824" data-title="The Mock Self de William Watson" data-description="Few friends are mine, though many wights there be Who, meeting oft a phantasm that makes claim To be myself, and hath my face and name, And whose thin fraud I wink at privily, Account this light impostor very me. What boots it undeceive them, and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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