<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=552970" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For an Autograph</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THOUGH old the thought and oft exprest, <br>'Tis his at last who says it best, <br>I'll try my fortune with the rest. <br>Life is a leaf of paper white <br>Whereon each one of us may write <br>His word or two, and then comes night. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Lo, time and space enough,' we cry, <br>'To write an epic! ' so we try <br>Our nibs upon the edge, and die. <br>Muse not which way the pen to hold, <br>Luck hates the slow and loves the bold, <br>Soon come the darkness and the cold. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Greatly begin! though thou have time <br>But for a line, be that sublime, <br>Not failure, but low aim, is crime. <br>Ah, with what lofty hope we came! <br>But we forget it, dream of fame, <br>And scrawl, as I do here, a name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Russell+Lowell">James Russell Lowell</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=552970" data-title="For an Autograph de James Russell Lowell" data-description="THOUGH old the thought and oft exprest, 'Tis his at last who says it best, I'll try my fortune with the rest. Life is a leaf of paper white Whereon each one of us may write His word or two, and then comes night. 'Lo, time and space enough,'..."></div> </div> </div>

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