<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410466" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Murder Of William Remington</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is true, that even in the best-run state <br>Such things will happen; it is true, <br>What’s done is done. The law, whereby we hate <br>Our hatred, sees no fire in the flue <br>But by the smoke, and not for thought alone <br>It punishes, but for the thing that’s done. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And yet there is the horror of the fact, <br>Though we knew not the man. To die in jail, <br>To be beaten to death, to know the act <br>Of personal fury before the eyes can fail <br>And the man die against the cold last wall <br>Of the lonely world—and neither is that all: </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>There is the terror too of each man’s thought, <br>That knows not, but must quietly suspect <br>His neighbor, friend, or self of being taught <br>To take an attitude merely correct; <br>Being frightened of his own cold image in <br>The glass of government, and his own sin, </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Frightened lest senate house and prison wall <br>Be quarried of one stone, lest righteous and high <br>Look faintly smiling down and seem to call <br>A crime the welcome chance of liberty, <br>And any man an outlaw who aggrieves <br>The patriotism of a pair of thieves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Howard+Nemerov">Howard Nemerov</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=410466" data-title="The Murder Of William Remington de Howard Nemerov" data-description="It is true, that even in the best-run state Such things will happen; it is true, What’s done is done. The law, whereby we hate Our hatred, sees no fire in the flue But by the smoke, and not for thought alone It punishes, but for the thing t..."></div> </div> </div>

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