<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373943" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Voltaire Johnson</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why did you bruise me with your rough places<br>If you did not want me to tell you about them?<br>And stifle me with your stupidities,<br>If you did not want me to expose them?<br>And nail me with the nails of cruelty,<br>If you did not want me to pluck the nails forth<br>And fling them in your faces?<br>And starve me because I refused to obey you,<br>If you did not want me to undermine your tyranny?<br>I might have been as soul serene<br>As William Wordsworth except for you!<br>But what a coward you are, Spoon River,<br>When you drove me to stand in a magic circle<br>By the sword of Truth described!<br>And then to whine and curse your burns,<br>And curse my power who stood and laughed<br>Amid ironical lightning!</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=373943" data-title="Voltaire Johnson de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="Why did you bruise me with your rough places If you did not want me to tell you about them? And stifle me with your stupidities, If you did not want me to expose them? And nail me with the nails of cruelty, If you did not want me to pluck the nail..."></div> </div> </div>

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