<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507597" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Behold, As Goblins Dark Of Mien</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">BEHOLD, as goblins dark of mien<br>And portly tyrants dyed with crime<br>Change, in the transformation scene,<br>At Christmas, in the pantomime,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Instanter, at the prompter's cough,<br>The fairy bonnets them, and they<br>Throw their abhorred carbuncles off<br>And blossom like the flowers in May.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">- So mankind, to angelic eyes,<br>So, through the scenes of life below,<br>In life's ironical disguise,<br>A travesty of man, ye go:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But fear not: ere the curtain fall,<br>Death in the transformation scene<br>Steps forward from her pedestal,<br>Apparent, as the fairy Queen;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And coming, frees you in a trice<br>From all your lendings - lust of fame,<br>Ungainly virtue, ugly vice,<br>Terror and tyranny and shame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So each, at last himself, for good<br>In that dear country lays him down,<br>At last beloved and understood<br>And pure in feature and renown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Louis+Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</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=507597" data-title="Behold, As Goblins Dark Of Mien de Robert Louis Stevenson" data-description="BEHOLD, as goblins dark of mien And portly tyrants dyed with crime Change, in the transformation scene, At Christmas, in the pantomime, Instanter, at the prompter's cough, The fairy bonnets them, and they Throw their abhorred carbuncles off And b..."></div> </div> </div>

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