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will sound damn nationalistic but Mickiewicz was better!!!!!!!!!
you wont PTASZKu, dont worry ...Mickiewicz was better and here is one of his poem
ODE TO YOUTH
by Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855)
No Heart, no Spirit — Lo! cadaverous crowds!
O Youth! Pass me thy wings.
And let me o´er the dead earth soar;
Let me vanish in delusion´s clouds.
Where many the Zeal begets a wonder
And grows a flower of novelt}´ up yonder.
Adorned in Hope´s enamellings.
Who by his elder age shall darkened be
His toilsome forehead to the ground bent low.
Let him no more perceive or know
Than his thus lowered selfish eyes may see.
Youth! Up and over the horizons rise.
And smoothly penetrate
With Thy all-seeing eyes
The nations small and great.
Lo there! The space of dearth.
Where putrid vapors m the chaos wrestle:
´Tis Earth!
Up from the waters where the dead wind blows
A shell-clad Reptile rose.
He is his own rudder, sailor and vessel.
He often dives and rises up with little trouble.
For some smaller brutes he craves.
The waves cleave not to him nor he to the waves;
And suddenly he bumps upon a rock and bursts like a bubble.
Nobody knew his life, and of his death nobody wists.
Egoists!
Oh Youth! The ambrosia of life be Thine
When 1 with friends do share the time so sweet
When youthful hearts at heav´nly feasting meet
And golden threads around them all entwine.
Edited (3/5/2010) by foka
[:) im blind its all]
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yeah, this is going to go into my "wisdom book".