<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373935" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Village Atheist</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye young debaters over the doctrine<br>Of the soul's immortality<br>I who lie here was the village atheist,<br>Talkative, contentious, versed in the arguments<br>Of the infidels.<br>But through a long sickness<br>Coughing myself to death<br>I read the Upanishads and the poetry of Jesus.<br>And they lighted a torch of hope and intuition<br>And desire which the Shadow,<br>Leading me swiftly through the caverns of darkness,<br>Could not extinguish.<br>Listen to me, ye who live in the senses<br>And think through the senses only:<br>Immortality is not a gift,<br>Immortality is an achievement;<br>And only those who strive mightily<br>Shall possess it.</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=373935" data-title="The Village Atheist de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="Ye young debaters over the doctrine Of the soul's immortality I who lie here was the village atheist, Talkative, contentious, versed in the arguments Of the infidels. But through a long sickness Coughing myself to death I read the Upanishads and t..."></div> </div> </div>

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