<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400542" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Great Minimum</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is something to have wept as we have wept, <br>It is something to have done as we have done, <br>It is something to have watched when all men slept, <br>And seen the stars which never see the sun. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is something to have smelt the mystic rose, <br>Although it break and leave the thorny rods, <br>It is something to have hungered once as those <br>Must hunger who have ate the bread of gods. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To have seen you and your unforgotten face, <br>Brave as a blast of trumpets for the fray, <br>Pure as white lilies in a watery space, <br>It were something, though you went from me today. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To have known the things that from the weak are <br>furled, <br>Perilous ancient passions, strange and high; <br>It is something to be wiser then the world, <br>It is something to be older then the sky. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In a time of sceptic moths and cynic rusts, <br>And fattened lives that of their sweetness tire <br>In a world of flying loves and fading lusts, <br>It is something to be sure of a desire. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lo, blessed are our ears for they have heard; <br>Yea, blessed are our eyes for they have seen: <br>Let the thunder break on man and beast and bird <br>And the lightning. It is something to have been.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gilbert+Keith+Chesterton">Gilbert Keith Chesterton</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=400542" data-title="The Great Minimum de Gilbert Keith Chesterton" data-description="It is something to have wept as we have wept, It is something to have done as we have done, It is something to have watched when all men slept, And seen the stars which never see the sun. It is something to have smelt the mystic rose, Althou..."></div> </div> </div>

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