<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348662" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Of Charity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A beggar died last night; his soul<br>Went up to God, and said:<br>'I come uncalled, forgive it, Lord;<br>I died for want of bread.'<br> <br>Then answered him the Lord of heaven:<br>'Son, how can this thing be?<br>Are not my saints on earth? and they<br>Had surely succoured thee.'<br> <br>'Thy saints, O Lord,' the beggar said,<br>'Live holy lives of prayer;<br>How should they know of such as we?<br>We perish unaware.<br> <br>'They strive to save our wicked souls<br>And fit them for the sky;<br>Meanwhile, not having bread to eat,<br>(Forgive!) our bodies die.'<br> <br>Then the Lord God spake out of heaven<br>In wrath and angry pain:<br>'O men, for whom my Son hath died,<br>My Son hath lived in vain!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Symons">Arthur Symons</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=348662" data-title="Of Charity de Arthur Symons" data-description="A beggar died last night; his soul Went up to God, and said: 'I come uncalled, forgive it, Lord; I died for want of bread.' Then answered him the Lord of heaven: 'Son, how can this thing be? Are not my saints on earth? and they Had surely succou..."></div> </div> </div>

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