<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400559" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Philanthropist</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(With apologies to a Beautiful Poem)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe decrease<br>By cautious birth-control and die in peace)<br>Mellow with learning lightly took the word<br>That marked him not with them that love the Lord,<br>And told the angel of the book and pen<br>'Write me as one that loves his fellow-men:<br>For them alone I labour; to reclaim<br>The ragged roaming Bedouin and to tame<br>To ordered service; to uproot their vine<br>Who mock the Prophet, being mad with wine,<br>Let daylight through their tents and through their lives,<br>Number their camels, even count their wives;<br>Plot out the desert into streets and squares,<br>And count it a more fruitful work than theirs<br>Who lift a vain and visionary love<br>To your vague Allah in the skies above.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gently replied the angel of the pen:<br>'Labour in peace and love your fellow-men:<br>And love not God, since men alone are dear,<br>Only fear God; for you have Cause to fear.'</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=400559" data-title="The Philanthropist de Gilbert Keith Chesterton" data-description="(With apologies to a Beautiful Poem) ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe decrease By cautious birth-control and die in peace) Mellow with learning lightly took the word That marked him not with them that love the Lord, And told the angel of the book an..."></div> </div> </div>

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