<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355263" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Thoughtless Cruelty</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There, Robert, you have killed that fly,<br>And should you thousand ages try<br>The life you've taken to supply,<br>You could not do it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>You surely must have been devoid<br>Of thought and sense, to have destroyed<br>A thing which no way you annoyed-<br>You'll one day rue it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Twas but a fly perhaps you'll say,<br>That's born in April, dies in May;<br>That does but just learn to display<br>His wings one minute,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And in the next is vanished quite:<br>A bird devours it in his flight,<br>Or come a cold blast in the night,<br>There's no breath in it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The bird but seeks his proper food;<br>And Providence, whose power endued<br>That fly with life, when it thinks good,<br>May justly take it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But you have no excuses for't;<br>A life by Nature made so short,<br>Less reason is that you for sport<br>Should shorter make it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>A fly a little thing you rate,<br>But, Robert, do not estimate<br>A creature's pain by small or great;<br>The greatest being</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Can have but fibres, nerves, and flesh,<br>And these the smallest ones possess,<br>Although their frame and structure less<br>Escape our seeing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Lamb">Charles Lamb</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=355263" data-title="Thoughtless Cruelty de Charles Lamb" data-description="There, Robert, you have killed that fly, And should you thousand ages try The life you've taken to supply, You could not do it. You surely must have been devoid Of thought and sense, to have destroyed A thing which no way you annoyed- You'll one..."></div> </div> </div>

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