<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420504" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Giving And Taking</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who gives and hides the giving hand,<br>Nor counts on favor, fame, or praise,<br>Shall find his smallest gift outweighs<br>The burden of the sea and land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who gives to whom hath naught been given,<br>His gift in need, though small indeed<br>As is the grass-blade's wind-blown seed,<br>Is large as earth and rich as heaven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Forget it not, O man, to whom<br>A gift shall fall, while yet on earth;<br>Yea, even to thy seven-fold birth<br>Recall it in the lives to come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who broods above a wrong in thought<br>Sins much; but greater sin is his<br>Who, fed and clothed with kindnesses,<br>Shall count the holy alms as nought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who dares to curse the hands that bless<br>Shall know of sin the deadliest cost;<br>The patience of the heavens is lost<br>Beholding man's unthankfulness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he who breaks all laws may still<br>In Sivam's mercy be forgiven;<br>But none can save, in earth or heaven,<br>The wretch who answers good with ill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Greenleaf+Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</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=420504" data-title="Giving And Taking de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="Who gives and hides the giving hand, Nor counts on favor, fame, or praise, Shall find his smallest gift outweighs The burden of the sea and land. Who gives to whom hath naught been given, His gift in need, though small indeed As is the grass-blad..."></div> </div> </div>

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