<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117780" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Woodcutter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We came behind him by the wall,<br> My brethren drew their brands,<br>And they had strength to strike him down -<br> And I to bind his hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only once, to a lantern gleam,<br> He turned his face from the wall,<br>And it was as the accusing angel's face<br> On the day when the stars shall fall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I grasped the axe with shaking hands,<br> I stared at the grass I trod;<br>For I feared to see the whole bare heavens<br> Filled with the face of God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I struck: the serpentine slow blood<br> In four arms soaked the moss -<br>Before me, by the living Christ,<br> The blood ran in a cross.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Therefore I toil in forests here<br> And pile the wood in stacks,<br>And take no fee from the shivering folk<br> Till I have cleansed the axe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But for a curse God cleared my sight,<br> And where each tree doth grow<br>I see a life with awful eyes,<br> And I must lay it low.</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=117780" data-title="The Woodcutter de G.K. Chesterton" data-description="We came behind him by the wall,/ My brethren drew their brands,/And they had strength to strike him down -/ And I to bind his hands./Only once, to a lantern gleam,/ He turned his face from the wall,/And it was as the accusing angel's face/ On the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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