<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374206" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Poor Man's Guest</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ONE came to me in royal guise<br>With banners flying fair and free<br>But many griefs had made me wise<br>And I refused to bow the knee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then one drew near who bore the flower<br>Of all the flowers of June and May;<br>But many griefs had lent me power<br>And I was strong to turn away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then came a beggar to my gate<br>With shoulders bowed to sorrow's pack,<br>So weary and so desolate<br>I had no heart to turn him back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I let him share my board, my bed,<br>I warmed him in my shrinking breast,<br>I gave him all I had, and said:<br>'You, only you, have been my guest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Love passed in many a fair disguise<br>But never could an entrance win,<br>But you came in such piteous wise,<br>Poor friend, I could but let you in.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Low laughed my guest: 'Kind friend!' said he,<br>And dropped the rags he was weary of;<br>And I, betrayed, saw over me<br>The terrible face of outraged Love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edith+Nesbit">Edith Nesbit</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=374206" data-title="The Poor Man's Guest de Edith Nesbit" data-description="ONE came to me in royal guise With banners flying fair and free But many griefs had made me wise And I refused to bow the knee. Then one drew near who bore the flower Of all the flowers of June and May; But many griefs had lent me power And I was..."></div> </div> </div>

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