<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116306" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Twins</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Give" and "It-shall-be-given-unto-you"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grand rough old Martin Luther<br> Bloomed fables-flowers on furze,<br>The better the uncouther:<br> Do roses stick like burrs?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A beggar asked an alms<br> One day at an abbey-door,<br>Said Luther; but, seized with qualms,<br> The abbot replied, "We're poor!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Poor, who had plenty once,<br> When gifts fell thick as rain:<br>But they give us nought, for the nonce,<br> And now should we give again?"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the beggar, "See your sins!<br> Of old, unless I err,<br>Ye had brothers for inmates, twins,<br> Date and Dabitur.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>V</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"While Date was in good case<br> Dabitur flourished too:<br>For Dabitur's lenten face<br> No wonder if Date rue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Would ye retrieve the one?<br> Try and make plump the other!<br>When Date's penance is done,<br> Dabitur helps his brother.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Only, beware relapse!"<br> The Abbot hung his head.<br>This beggar might be perhaps<br> An angel, Luther said.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Browning">Robert Browning</a> from <i>Men and Women</i><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=116306" data-title="The Twins de Robert Browning" data-description=""Give" and "It-shall-be-given-unto-you"/I/Grand rough old Martin Luther/ Bloomed fables-flowers on furze,/The better the uncouther:/ Do roses stick like burrs?//II/A beggar asked an alms/ One day at an abbey-door,/Said Luther; but, seized with qua..."></div> </div> </div>

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