<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117769" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lamp Post</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Laugh your best, O blazoned forests,<br> Me ye shall not shift or shame<br>With your beauty: here among you<br> Man hath set his spear of flame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lamp to lamp we send the signal,<br> For our lord goes forth to war;<br>Since a voice, ere stars were builded,<br> Bade him colonise a star.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Laugh ye, cruel as the morning,<br> Deck your heads with fruit and flower,<br>Though our souls be sick with pity,<br> Yet our hands are hard with power.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have read your evil stories,<br> We have heard the tiny yell<br>Through the voiceless conflagration<br> Of your green and shining hell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when men, with fires and shouting,<br> Break your old tyrannic pales;<br>And where ruled a single spider<br> Laugh and weep a million tales.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This shall be your best of boasting:<br> That some poet, poor of spine.<br>Full and sated with our wisdom,<br> Full and fiery with our wine,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall steal out and make a treaty<br> With the grasses and the showers,<br>Rail against the grey town-mother,<br> Fawn upon the scornful flowers;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rest his head among the roses,<br> Where a quiet song-bird sounds,<br>And no sword made sharp for traitors,<br> Hack him into meat for hounds.</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=117769" data-title="The Lamp Post de G.K. Chesterton" data-description="Laugh your best, O blazoned forests,/ Me ye shall not shift or shame/With your beauty: here among you/ Man hath set his spear of flame./Lamp to lamp we send the signal,/ For our lord goes forth to war;/Since a voice, ere stars were builded,/ Bade ..."></div> </div> </div>

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