<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381440" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Theophilus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">By what serene malevolence of names <br>Had you the gift of yours, Theophilus? <br>Not even a smeared young Cyclops at his games <br>Would have you long,—and you are one of us. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Told of your deeds I shudder for your dream<br>And they, no doubt, are few and innocent. <br>Meanwhile, I marvel; for in you, it seems, <br>Heredity outshines environment. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What lingering bit of Belial, unforeseen, <br>Survives and amplifies itself in you?<br>What manner of devilry has ever been <br>That your obliquity may never do? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Humility befits a father’s eyes, <br>But not a friend of us would have him weep. <br>Admiring everything that lives and dies,<br>Theophilus, we like you best asleep. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sleep—sleep; and let us find another man <br>To lend another name less hazardous: <br>Caligula, maybe, or Caliban, <br>Or Cain,—but surely not Theophilus.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edwin+Arlington+Robinson">Edwin Arlington Robinson</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=381440" data-title="Theophilus de Edwin Arlington Robinson" data-description="By what serene malevolence of names Had you the gift of yours, Theophilus? Not even a smeared young Cyclops at his games Would have you long,—and you are one of us. Told of your deeds I shudder for your dream And they, no doubt, are few and..."></div> </div> </div>

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