<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=464729" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shrift</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am not true, but you would pardon this<br>If you could see the tortured spirit take<br>Its place beside you in the dark, and break<br>Your daily food of love and kindliness.<br>You'd guess the bitter thing that treachery is,<br>Furtive and on its guard, asleep, awake,<br>Fearing to sin, yet fearing to forsake,<br>And daily giving Christ the Judas kiss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But piteous amends I make each day<br>To recompense the evil with the good;<br>With double pang I play the double part<br>Of all you trust and all that I betray.<br>What long atonement makes my penitent blood,<br>To what sad tryst goes my unfaithful heart!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Muriel+Stuart">Muriel Stuart</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=464729" data-title="Shrift de Muriel Stuart" data-description="I am not true, but you would pardon this If you could see the tortured spirit take Its place beside you in the dark, and break Your daily food of love and kindliness. You'd guess the bitter thing that treachery is, Furtive and on its guard, asleep..."></div> </div> </div>

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