<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Hermit</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AN ATTACK ON BARBERCRAFT</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Dedicated to George Cecil Jones]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>At last an end of all I hoped and feared!<br>Muttered the hermit through his elfin beard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then what art thou? the evil whisper whirred.<br>I doubt me soerly if the hermit heard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To all God's questions never a word he said,<br>But simply shook his venerable head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">God sent all plagues; he laughed and heeded not,<br>Till people certified him insane.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But somehow all his fellow-luntaics<br>Began to imitate his silly ticks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And stranger still, their prospects so enlarged<br>That one by one the patients were discharged.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">God asked him by what right he interfered;<br>He only laughed and into his elfin beard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When God revealed Himself to mortal prayer<br>He gave a fatal opening to Voltaire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our Hermi had dispensed with Sinai's thunder,<br>But on the other hand he made no blunder;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He knew ( no doubt) that any axiom<br>Would furnish bricks to build some Donkeydom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But!-all who urged that hermit to confess<br>Caught the infection of his happiness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would it were my fate to dree his weird;<br>I think that I will grow an elfin beard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Aleister+Crowley">Aleister Crowley</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=340991" data-title="The Hermit de Aleister Crowley" data-description="AN ATTACK ON BARBERCRAFT [Dedicated to George Cecil Jones] At last an end of all I hoped and feared! Muttered the hermit through his elfin beard. Then what art thou? the evil whisper whirred. I doubt me soerly if the hermit heard. To all God'..."></div> </div> </div>

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