<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567445" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On A Group Of Justice And Charity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHAT do the scales of Justice hold, <br>Poised even in that steady hand?-- <br>What is that measure closely scanned? <br>Is one side weighted down with gold? <br>Or is she clamorous for her right? <br>Surely for that she bides too still! <br>Rather, it seems to me, her sight <br>Is cognisant of good and ill. <br>With level brows this Justice stands <br>And weighs her duties one by one;-- <br>And if she pleads, or if commands, <br>It is lest these be left undone, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or slurred through weakness and constraint;-- <br>This noble Justice was not bred <br>In hearts defiled with any taint <br>Of selfish seeking, dark and dead. <br>Give, if you will, another name <br>To those fine scales so nicely hung, <br>And call her Conscience, and proclaim <br>Her sovereign right with every tongue-- <br>But, because she is mortal, trust <br>Her not alone, lest, too severe, <br>She take account with diamond dust <br>Of baser metal; her beside <br>Let loving Charity abide, <br>With her young children gathered near.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bessie+Rayner+Parkes">Bessie Rayner Parkes</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=567445" data-title="On A Group Of Justice And Charity de Bessie Rayner Parkes" data-description="WHAT do the scales of Justice hold, Poised even in that steady hand?-- What is that measure closely scanned? Is one side weighted down with gold? Or is she clamorous for her right? Surely for that she bides too still! Rather, it seems to me,..."></div> </div> </div>

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