<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350454" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Grain Tribute</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There came an officer knocking by night at my door<br>In a loud voice demanding grain-tribute.<br>My house-servants dared not wait till the morning,<br>But brought candles and set them on the barn-floor.<br>Passed through the sieve, clean-washed as pearls,<br>A whole cart-load, thirty bushels of grain.<br>But still they cry that it is not paid in full:<br>With whips and curses they goad my servants and boys.<br>Once, in error, I entered public life;<br>I am inwardly ashamed that my talents were not sufficient.<br>In succession I occupied four official posts;<br>For doing nothing—ten years’ salary!<br>Often have I heard that saying of ancient men<br>That “good and ill follow in an endless chain.”<br>And to-day it ought to set my heart at rest<br>To return to others the corn in my great barn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bai+Juyi">Bai Juyi</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=350454" data-title="The Grain Tribute de Bai Juyi" data-description="There came an officer knocking by night at my door In a loud voice demanding grain-tribute. My house-servants dared not wait till the morning, But brought candles and set them on the barn-floor. Passed through the sieve, clean-washed as pearls, A ..."></div> </div> </div>

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