<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117916" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Song of the Strange Ascetic</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I had been a heathen,<br>I'd have praised the purple vine,<br>My slaves should dig the vineyards,<br>And I would drink the wine;<br>But Higgins is a heathen,<br>And his slaves grow lean and grey,<br>That he may drink some tepid milk<br>Exactly twice a day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I had been a heathen,<br>I'd have crowned Neaera's curls,<br>And filled my life with love affairs,<br>My house with dancing girls;<br>But Higgins is a heathen,<br>And to lecture rooms is forced,<br>Where his aunts, who are not married,<br>Demand to be divorced.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I had been a heathen,<br>I'd have sent my armies forth,<br>And dragged behind my chariots<br>The Chieftains of the North;<br>But Higgins is a heathen,<br>And he drives the dreary quill,<br>To lend the poor that funny cash<br>That makes them poorer still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I had been a heathen,<br>I'd have piled my pyre on high,<br>And in a great red whirlwind<br>Gone roaring to the sky;<br>But Higgins is a heathen,<br>And a richer man than I:<br>And they put him in an oven,<br>Just as if he were a pie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now who that runs can read it,<br>The riddle that I write,<br>Of why this poor old sinner<br>Should sin without delight;<br>But I, I cannot read it<br>(Although I run and run),<br>Of them that do not have the faith,<br>And will not have the fun.</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=117916" data-title="The Song of the Strange Ascetic de G.K. Chesterton" data-description="If I had been a heathen,/I'd have praised the purple vine,/My slaves should dig the vineyards,/And I would drink the wine;/But Higgins is a heathen,/And his slaves grow lean and grey,/That he may drink some tepid milk/Exactly twice a day./If I had..."></div> </div> </div>

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