<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426388" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Gallows</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is a gate, we know full well,<br>That stands 'twixt Heaven, and Earth, and Hell,<br>Where many for a passage venture,<br>Yet very few are fond to enter:<br>Although 'tis open night and day,<br>They for that reason shun this way:<br>Both dukes and lords abhor its wood,<br>They can't come near it for their blood.<br>What other way they take to go,<br>Another time I'll let you know.<br>Yet commoners with greatest ease<br>Can find an entrance when they please.<br>The poorest hither march in state<br>(Or they can never pass the gate)<br>Like Roman generals triumphant,<br>And then they take a turn and jump on't,<br>If gravest parsons here advance,<br>They cannot pass before they dance;<br>There's not a soul that does resort here,<br>But strips himself to pay the porter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Swift">Jonathan Swift</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=426388" data-title="On The Gallows de Jonathan Swift" data-description="There is a gate, we know full well, That stands 'twixt Heaven, and Earth, and Hell, Where many for a passage venture, Yet very few are fond to enter: Although 'tis open night and day, They for that reason shun this way: Both dukes and lords abhor ..."></div> </div> </div>

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