<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=575414" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Beggar's Scapegoat</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O fate how cruel thy ties and twists, <br>O fate, how can I love thee for this? <br>How should I bear thee now? <br>Like a brother? A mother? <br>Or as a farmer should bear the stench<br>Of his fatted sow? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O fate with thy binds and grips, <br>O fate, how should thou tear so deep to flesh on oily whips? <br>And how should I know thee now? <br>To string me like half a veal.<br>By strips of sinew and rusted hooks, <br>Have you no mercy to spare my carcass meal? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Would thee burden I with an Atlas weight, <br>For simple pleasure of a graceless hate? <br>O fate with thy vice and traps, <br>O fate, know this of me that; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Should I know and bear and love thee now; -<br>By Will it would not be done.<br>And only as a thong tethered to thy bloated purse<br>Should I carry your riches with scorn and curse, <br>And hope as thee would dither through miserable streets <br>And swollen markets, <br>Dead woods, forgotten roads and hooker’s hoards, <br>That some miserable thief should slit my throat<br>And pocket your keep, for bread, for wine<br>Or comfortable sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would not care as long as our ties lay severed and our relations dead.<br>And should you find then, my goat of blame, a reason of loathing that<br>Brews and bruise behind a beggar’s broken mind, <br>I say this: O fate, <br>Be not surprised.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Graham+Stone">Graham Stone</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=575414" data-title="The Beggar's Scapegoat de Graham Stone" data-description="O fate how cruel thy ties and twists, O fate, how can I love thee for this? How should I bear thee now? Like a brother? A mother? Or as a farmer should bear the stench Of his fatted sow? O fate with thy binds and grips, O fate, how should t..."></div> </div> </div>

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