<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=504186" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Flea</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A flea that bit you had bitten me too.<br>The two bloods mingled for single blood.<br>The flea’s body is our marriage lobby.<br>Neither shame nor sin would accrue since than.<br>Nor would you have grown any weaker too.<br>By yielding to me and getting my blood<br>You would shed no grace nor honour either.<br>You will make me than the flea happier.<br>Your yielding to me will not do more harm<br>Than what the flea has done to you, dear.<br>[the verse of John Donne, The Flea, rewritten]<br>20.12.2007</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rm.+Shanmugam+Chettiar">Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar</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=504186" data-title="The Flea de Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar" data-description="A flea that bit you had bitten me too. The two bloods mingled for single blood. The flea’s body is our marriage lobby. Neither shame nor sin would accrue since than. Nor would you have grown any weaker too. By yielding to me and getting my blood..."></div> </div> </div>

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