<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510947" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Covenant</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We thought we ranked above the chance of ill.<br> Others might fall, not we, for we were wise--<br>Merchants in freedom. So, of our free-will<br> We let our servants drug our strength with lies.<br>The pleasure and the poison had its way<br> On us as on the meanest, till we learned<br>That he who lies will steal, who steals will slay.<br> Neither God's judgment nor man's heart was turned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet there remains His Mercy--to be sought<br> Through wrath and peril till we cleanse the wrong<br>By that last right which our forefathers claimed<br> When their Law failed them and its stewards were bought.<br>This is our cause. God help us, and make strong<br> Our will to meet Him later, unashamed!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</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=510947" data-title="The Covenant de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="We thought we ranked above the chance of ill. Others might fall, not we, for we were wise-- Merchants in freedom. So, of our free-will We let our servants drug our strength with lies. The pleasure and the poison had its way On us as on the mean..."></div> </div> </div>

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