<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391146" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballad for Gloom</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For God, our God is a gallant foe <br>That playeth behind the veil. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have loved my God as a child at heart <br>That seeketh deep bosoms for rest, <br>I have loved my God as a maid to man— <br>But lo, this thing is best: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To love your God as a gallant foe that plays behind the veil; <br>To meet your God as the night winds meet beyond Arcturus' pale. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have played with God for a woman, <br>I have staked with my God for truth, <br>I have lost to my God as a man, clear-eyed— <br>His dice be not of ruth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I am made as a naked blade, <br>But hear ye this thing in sooth: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who loseth to God as man to man <br>Shall win at the turn of the game. <br>I have drawn my blade where the lightnings meet <br>But the ending is the same: <br>Who loseth to God as the sword blades lose <br>Shall win at the end of the game. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For God, our God is a gallant foe that playeth behind the veil. <br>Whom God deigns not to overthrow hath need of triple mail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ezra+Pound">Ezra Pound</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=391146" data-title="Ballad for Gloom de Ezra Pound" data-description="For God, our God is a gallant foe That playeth behind the veil. I have loved my God as a child at heart That seeketh deep bosoms for rest, I have loved my God as a maid to man— But lo, this thing is best: To love your God as a gallant fo..."></div> </div> </div>

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