<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117827" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Great Minimum</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is something to have wept as we have wept,<br>It is something to have done as we have done,<br>It is something to have watched when all men slept,<br>And seen the stars which never see the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is something to have smelt the mystic rose,<br>Although it break and leave the thorny rods,<br>It is something to have hungered once as those<br>Must hunger who have ate the bread of gods.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To have seen you and your unforgotten face,<br>Brave as a blast of trumpets for the fray,<br>Pure as white lilies in a watery space,<br>It were something, though you went from me today.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To have known the things that from the weak are furled,<br>Perilous ancient passions, strange and high;<br>It is something to be wiser than the world,<br>It is something to be older than the sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In a time of sceptic moths and cynic rusts,<br>And fattened lives that of their sweetness tire<br>In a world of flying loves and fading lusts,<br>It is something to be sure of a desire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lo, blessed are our ears for they have heard;<br>Yea, blessed are our eyes for they have seen:<br>Let the thunder break on man and beast and bird<br>And the lightning. It is something to have been.</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=117827" data-title="The Great Minimum de G.K. Chesterton" data-description="It is something to have wept as we have wept,/It is something to have done as we have done,/It is something to have watched when all men slept,/And seen the stars which never see the sun./It is something to have smelt the mystic rose,/Although it ..."></div> </div> </div>

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