<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117770" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Pessimist</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You that have snarled through the ages, take your answer and go -<br>I know your hoary question, the riddle that all men know.<br>You have weighed the stars in a balance, and grasped the skies in a span:<br>Take, if you must have answer, the word of a common man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Deep in my life lies buried one love unhealed, unshriven,<br>One hunger still shall haunt me - yea, in the streets of heaven;<br>This is the burden, babbler, this is the curse shall cling,<br>This is the thing I bring you; this is the pleasant thing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Gainst you and all your sages, no joy of mine shall strive,<br>This one dead self shall shatter the men you call alive.<br>My grief I send to smite you, no pleasure, no belief,<br>Lord of the battered grievance, what do you know of grief?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I only know the praises to heaven that one man gave,<br>That he came on earth for an instant, to stand beside a grave,<br>The peace of a field of battle, where flowers are born of blood.<br>I only know one evil that makes the whole world good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beneath this single sorrow the globe of moon and sphere<br>Turns to a single jewel, so bright and brittle and dear<br>That I dread lest God should drop it, to be dashed into stars below.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You that have snarled through the ages, take your answer and go.</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=117770" data-title="The Pessimist de G.K. Chesterton" data-description="You that have snarled through the ages, take your answer and go -/I know your hoary question, the riddle that all men know./You have weighed the stars in a balance, and grasped the skies in a span:/Take, if you must have answer, the word of a comm..."></div> </div> </div>

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