<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540247" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Upon The Punishment Of Death</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">YE brood of conscience--Spectres! that frequent<br>The bad Man's restless walk, and haunt his bed--<br>Fiends in your aspect, yet beneficent<br>In act, as hovering Angels when they spread<br>Their wings to guard the unconscious Innocent--<br>Slow be the Statutes of the land to share<br>A laxity that could not but impair<br>'Your' power to punish crime, and so prevent.<br>And ye, Beliefs! coiled serpent-like about<br>The adage on all tongues, 'Murder will out,' <br>How shall your ancient warnings work for good<br>In the full might they hitherto have shown,<br>If for deliberate shedder of man's blood<br>Survive not Judgment that requires his own?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</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=540247" data-title="Upon The Punishment Of Death de William Wordsworth" data-description="YE brood of conscience--Spectres! that frequent The bad Man's restless walk, and haunt his bed-- Fiends in your aspect, yet beneficent In act, as hovering Angels when they spread Their wings to guard the unconscious Innocent-- Slow be the Statutes..."></div> </div> </div>

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