<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373908" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Robert Fulton Tanner</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If a man could bite the giant hand <br>That catches and destroys him, <br>As I was bitten by a rat <br>While demonstrating my patent trap, <br>In my hardware store that day. <br>But a man can never avenge himself <br>On the monstrous ogre Life. <br>You enter the room--that's being born; <br>And then you must live--work out your soul, <br>Aha! the bait that you crave is in view: <br>A woman with money you want to marry, <br>Prestige, place, or power in the world. <br>But there's work to do and things to conquer-- <br>Oh, yes! the wires that screen the bait. <br>At last you get in--but you hear a step: <br>The ogre, Life, comes into the room, <br>(He was waiting and heard the clang of the spring) <br>To watch you nibble the wondrous cheese, <br>And stare with his burning eyes at you, <br>And scowl and laugh, and mock and curse you, <br>Running up and down in the trap, <br>Until your misery bores him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Lee+Masters">Edgar Lee Masters</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=373908" data-title="Robert Fulton Tanner de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="If a man could bite the giant hand That catches and destroys him, As I was bitten by a rat While demonstrating my patent trap, In my hardware store that day. But a man can never avenge himself On the monstrous ogre Life. You enter the room-..."></div> </div> </div>

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