<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506408" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Twins, The</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">``Give'' and ``It-shall-be-given-unto-you.''</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grand rough old Martin Luther<br> Bloomed fables---flowers on furze,<br>The better the uncouther:<br> Do roses stick like burrs?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A beggar asked an alms<br> One day at an abbey-door,<br>Said Luther; but, seized with qualms,<br> The abbot replied, ``We're poor!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> III.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">``Poor, who had plenty once,<br> ``When gifts fell thick as rain:<br>``But they give us nought, for the nonce,<br> ``And how should we give again?''</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> IV.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the beggar, ``See your sins!<br> ``Of old, unless I err,<br>``Ye had brothers for inmates, twins,<br> ``Date and Dabitur.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> V.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">``While Date was in good case<br> ``Dabitur flourished too:<br>``For Dabitur's lenten face<br> ``No wonder if Date rue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> VI.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">``Would ye retrieve the one?<br> ``Try and make plump the other!<br>``When Date's penance is done,<br> ``Dabitur helps his brother.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> VII.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">``Only, beware relapse!''<br> The Abbot hung his head.<br>This beggar might be perhaps<br> An angel, Luther said.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Browning">Robert Browning</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=506408" data-title="Twins, The de Robert Browning" data-description="``Give'' and ``It-shall-be-given-unto-you.'' I. Grand rough old Martin Luther Bloomed fables---flowers on furze, The better the uncouther: Do roses stick like burrs? II. A beggar asked an alms One day at an abbey-door, Said Luther; but, s..."></div> </div> </div>

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