<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381492" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Good Man in Hell</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If a good man were ever housed in Hell<br>By needful error of the qualities,<br>Perhaps to prove the rule or shame the devil,<br>Or speak the truth only a stranger sees,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Would he, surrendering quick to obvious hate,<br>Fill half eternity with cries and tears,<br>Or watch beside Hell's little wicket gate<br>In patience for the first ten thousand years,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Feeling the curse climb slowly to his throat<br>That, uttered, dooms him to rescindless ill,<br>Forcing his praying tongue to run by rote,<br>Eternity entire before him still?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Would he at last, grown faithful in his station,<br>Kindle a little hope in hopeless Hell,<br>And sow among the damned doubts of damnation,<br>Since here someone could live, and live well?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One doubt of evil would bring down such a grace,<br>Open such a gate, and Eden could enter in,<br>Hell be a place like any other place,<br>And love and hate and life and death begin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edwin+Muir">Edwin Muir</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=381492" data-title="The Good Man in Hell de Edwin Muir" data-description="If a good man were ever housed in Hell By needful error of the qualities, Perhaps to prove the rule or shame the devil, Or speak the truth only a stranger sees, Would he, surrendering quick to obvious hate, Fill half eternity with cries and tears..."></div> </div> </div>

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