<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=430888" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>War</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">One night a feat was held in the palace, and there came a man and<br>prostrated himself before the prince, and all the feasters looked<br>upon him; and they saw that one of his eyes was out and that<br>the empty socket bled. And the prince inquired of him, 'What has<br>befallen you?' And the man replied, 'O prince, I am by profession<br>a thief, and this night, because there was no moon, I went to rob<br>the money-changer's shop, and as I climbed in through the window<br>I made a mistake and entered the weaver's shop, and in the dark I<br>ran into the weaver's loom and my eye was plucked out. And now,<br>O prince, I ask for justice upon the weaver.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the prince sent for the weaver and he came, and it was decreed<br>that one of his eyes should be plucked out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'O prince,' said the weaver, 'the decree is just. It is right that<br>one of my eyes be taken. And yet, alas! both are necessary to me<br>in order that I may see the two sides of the cloth that I weave.<br>But I have a neighbour, a cobbler, who has also two eyes, and in<br>his trade both eyes are not necessary.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the prince sent for the cobbler. And he came. And they took<br>out one of the cobbler's two eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And justice was satisfied.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Khalil+Gibran">Khalil Gibran</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=430888" data-title="War de Khalil Gibran" data-description="One night a feat was held in the palace, and there came a man and prostrated himself before the prince, and all the feasters looked upon him; and they saw that one of his eyes was out and that the empty socket bled. And the prince inquired of him,..."></div> </div> </div>

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