<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=406963" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Slaughter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heaven, beg mercy for me!  If there is<br>a God in you, a pathway through<br>you to this God - which I have not<br>discovered - then pray for me!  For my<br>heart is dead, no longer is there prayer<br>on my lips; all strength is gone, and<br>hope is no more.  Until when, how<br>much longer, until when?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You, executioner!  Here's my neck - go<br>to it, slaughter me!  Behead me like a<br>dog, yours is the almighty arm and the<br>axe, and the whole earth is my scaffold<br>- and we, we are the few! My blood is<br>fair game - strike the skull, and<br>murder's blood, the blood of nurslings<br>and old men, will spurt onto your<br>clothes and will never, never be wiped<br>off.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if there is justice - let it show<br>itself at once!  But if justice show itself<br>after I have been blotted out from<br>beneath the skies - let its throne be<br>hurled down forever!  Let heaven rot<br>with eternal evil!  And you, the arrogant,<br>go in this violence of yours, live by<br>your bloodshed and be cleansed by it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And cursed be the man who says:<br>Avenge!  No such revenge - revenge for<br>the blood of a little child - has yet been<br>devised by Satan.  Let the blood pierce<br>through the abyss!  Let the blood seep<br>down into the depths of darkness, and<br>eat away there, in the dark, and breach<br>all the rotting foundations of the earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Hayyim+Nahman+Bialik">Hayyim Nahman Bialik</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=406963" data-title="On The Slaughter de Hayyim Nahman Bialik" data-description="Heaven, beg mercy for me!  If there is a God in you, a pathway through you to this God - which I have not discovered - then pray for me!  For my heart is dead, no longer is there prayer on my lips; all strength is gone, and hope is no more.  Un..."></div> </div> </div>

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