<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118203" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Wen Gott betrügt, ist wohl betrogen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it true, ye gods, who treat us<br>As the gambling fool is treated;<br>O ye, who ever cheat us,<br>And let us feel we’re cheated!<br>Is it true that poetical power,<br>The gift of heaven, the dower<br>Of Apollo and the Nine,<br>The inborn sense, ‘the vision and the faculty divine,’<br>All we glorify and bless<br>In our rapturous exaltation,<br>All invention, and creation,<br>Exuberance of fancy, and sublime imagination,<br>All a poet’s fame is built on,<br>The fame of Shakespeare, Milton,<br>Of Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley,<br>Is in reason’s grave precision,<br>Nothing more, nothing less,<br>Than a peculiar conformation,<br>Constitution, and condition<br>Of the brain and of the belly?<br>Is it true, ye gods who cheat us?<br>And that ’s the way ye treat us?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh say it, all who think it,<br>Look straight, and never blink it!<br>If it is so, let it be so,<br>And we will all agree so;<br>But the plot has counterplot,<br>It may be, and yet be not.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Hugh+Clough">Arthur Hugh Clough</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=118203" data-title="Wen Gott betrügt, ist wohl betrogen de Arthur Hugh Clough" data-description="Is it true, ye gods, who treat us/As the gambling fool is treated;/O ye, who ever cheat us,/And let us feel we’re cheated!/Is it true that poetical power,/The gift of heaven, the dower/Of Apollo and the Nine,/The inborn sense, ‘the vision and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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