<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511128" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Stranger</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Stranger within my gate,<br> He may be true or kind,<br>But he does not talk my talk--<br> I cannot feel his mind.<br>I see the face and the eyes and the mouth,<br> But not the soul behind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The men of my own stock,<br> They may do ill or well,<br>But they tell the lies I am wanted to,<br> They are used to the lies I tell;<br>And we do not need interpreters<br> When we go to buy or sell.<br> <br>The Stranger within my gates,<br> He may be evil or good,<br>But I cannot tell what powers control--<br> What reasons sway his mood;<br>Nor when the Gods of his far-off land<br> Shall repossess his blood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The men of my own stock,<br> Bitter bad they may be,<br>But, at least, they hear the things I hear,<br> And see the things I see;<br>And whatever I think of them and their likes<br> They think of the likes of me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This was my father's belief<br> And this is also mine:<br>Let the corn be all one sheaf--<br> And the grapes be all one vine,<br>Ere our children's teeth are set on edge<br> By bitter bread and wine.</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=511128" data-title="The Stranger de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="The Stranger within my gate, He may be true or kind, But he does not talk my talk-- I cannot feel his mind. I see the face and the eyes and the mouth, But not the soul behind. The men of my own stock, They may do ill or well, But they tell th..."></div> </div> </div>

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