<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117704" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Thou Shalt Not Kill a Certain Evening</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had grown weary of him; of his breath<br>And hands and features I was sick to death.<br>Each day I heard the same dull voice and tread;<br>I did not hate him: but I wished him dead.<br>And he must with his blank face fill my life -<br>Then my brain blackened; and I snatched a knife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But ere I struck, my soul's grey deserts through<br>A voice cried, 'Know at least what thing you do.'<br>'This is a common man: knowest thou, O soul,<br>What this thing is? somewhere where seasons roll<br>There is some living thing for whom this man<br>Is as seven heavens girt into a span,<br>For some one soul you take the world away -<br>Now know you well your deed and purpose. Slay!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then I cast down the knife upon the ground<br>And saw that mean man for one moment crowned.<br>I turned and laughed: for there was no one by -<br>The man that I had sought to slay was I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=G.K.+Chesterton">G.K. Chesterton</a> from <i>The Wild Knight and Other Poems</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=117704" data-title="Thou Shalt Not Kill a Certain Evening de G.K. Chesterton" data-description="I had grown weary of him; of his breath/And hands and features I was sick to death./Each day I heard the same dull voice and tread;/I did not hate him: but I wished him dead./And he must with his blank face fill my life -/Then my brain blackened; ..."></div> </div> </div>

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