<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536428" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXIV</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus through these griefs I had been set apart,<br>As for a double priesthood. Life to me,<br>In those first moments when I probed my heart,<br>Less an enchantress seemed than enemy.<br>My knowledge of the world had nothing human.<br>I saw Mankind a tribe, my natural foe,<br>Whom I must one day battle with; and Woman,<br>Ah! Woman was a snare I did not know.<br>Indeed, it may be that already hope<br>Knocked at my soul with tales it dared not own<br>Of woman's kindness in my horoscope.<br>Man, only Man I feared with eyes bent down,<br>Man the oppressor, who with pale lips curled<br>Sheds blood in the high places of the world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wilfrid+Scawen+Blunt">Wilfrid Scawen Blunt</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=536428" data-title="Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXIV de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="Thus through these griefs I had been set apart, As for a double priesthood. Life to me, In those first moments when I probed my heart, Less an enchantress seemed than enemy. My knowledge of the world had nothing human. I saw Mankind a tribe, my na..."></div> </div> </div>

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