<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117812" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Aristocrat</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stay<br>At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far away).<br>They say the sport is splendid; there is always something new,<br>And fairy scenes, and fearful feats that none but he can do;<br>He can shoot the feathered cherubs if they fly on the estate,<br>Or fish for Father Neptune with the mermaids for a bait;<br>He scaled amid the staggering stars that precipice, the sky,<br>And blew his trumpet above heaven, and got by mastery<br>The starry crown of God Himself, and shoved it on the shelf;<br>But the Devil is a gentleman, and doesn't brag himself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O blind your eyes and break your heart and hack your hand away,<br>And lose your love and shave your head; but do not go to stay<br>At the little place in What'sitsname where folks are rich and clever;<br>The golden and the goodly house, where things grow worse for ever;<br>There are things you need not know of, though you live and die in vain,<br>There are souls more sick of pleasure than you are sick of pain;<br>There is a game of April Fool that's played behind its door,<br>Where the fool remains for ever and the April comes no more,<br>Where the splendour of the daylight grows drearier than the dark,<br>And life droops like a vulture that once was such a lark:<br>And that is the Blue Devil that once was the Blue Bird;<br>For the Devil is a gentleman, and doesn't keep his word.</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><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=117812" data-title="The Aristocrat de G.K. Chesterton" data-description="The Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stay/At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far away)./They say the sport is splendid; there is always something new,/And fairy scenes, and fearful feats that none but he can do;/He can shoot ..."></div> </div> </div>

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