<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511083" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Question</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1916</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Brethren, how shall it fare with me<br>When the war is laid aside,<br>If it be proven that I am he<br>For whom a world has died?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If it be proven that all my good,<br>And the greater good I will make,<br>Were purchased me by a multitude<br>Who suffered for my sake?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That I was delivered by mere mankind<br>Vowed to one sacrifice,<br>And not, as I hold them, battle-blind,<br>But dying with open eyes?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That they did not ask me to draw the sword<br>When they stood to endure their lot --<br>That they only looked to me for a word,<br>And I answered I knew them not?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If it be found, when the battle clears,<br>Their death has set me free,<br>Then how shall I live with myself through the years<br>Which they have bought for me?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Brethren, how must it fare with me,<br>Or how am I justified,<br>If it be proven that I am he<br>For whom mankind has died --<br>If it be proven that I am he<br>Who, being questioned, denied?</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=511083" data-title="The Question de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="1916 Brethren, how shall it fare with me When the war is laid aside, If it be proven that I am he For whom a world has died? If it be proven that all my good, And the greater good I will make, Were purchased me by a multitude Who suffered for m..."></div> </div> </div>

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