<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392383" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shylock as a Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As if taking possession of my loans<br>They took my daughter, lured her to climb down<br>From this high casement, whereupon she sat<br>In service to my books and solitude</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She left by night and closed the window soft<br>Against a father's soul, opprobrium<br>Seeped in to douse the waxy candlelight<br>That has flickered, fragile, in these ages long</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stand robbed of my wealth and vital strength<br>Of all that keeps me whole and makes of me<br>A lineage, a man, all I am left<br>Exposed, red-hatted, chastened and bereft</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Myself I can transform beyond their powers<br>Through wiles and skills that centuries provide<br>To anticipate the ways of thieves and lawyers<br>And walk within shadows of the divine</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The tugging of my beard, spill of my debts<br>The soil of phlegm upon my gaberdine<br>All this was little to my face, compared<br>With their public seducing of my name</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another would resolve to stay his hand<br>Convert before the Duke's Venetian court<br>Would not have so insisted on his bond<br>Or drawn his corner tighter than before</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Would graciously have modified his terms<br>Demanding one small tooth, and not an eye<br>Would have foresworn the fall of merchant blood<br>And would not have survived until this night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will not kneel while I am in the right.<br>Don't seek to justify me, turn me pale<br>Stubborn in choice and raging sacrifice<br>Not as the Jew, but Shylock as a man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frank+Bana">Frank Bana</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=392383" data-title="Shylock as a Man de Frank Bana" data-description="As if taking possession of my loans They took my daughter, lured her to climb down From this high casement, whereupon she sat In service to my books and solitude She left by night and closed the window soft Against a father's soul, opprobrium See..."></div> </div> </div>

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