The Reaper And The Flowers

There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
      And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
      And the flowers that grow between.

"Shall I have naught that is fair?" Saith he;
      "Having naught but the bearded grain?
Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me,
      I will give them all back again,"
    
He gazed at the flowers with tearful eye,
      He kissed their drooping leaves;
It was for the Lord of Paradise
      He bound them in his sheaves.

"My Lord has need of these floweretsgay,"
      The Reaper said, and smiled:
"Dear tokens of the earth are they,
      Where he was once a child."

"They shall all bloom in fields of light,
      Transplanted by my care,
And saints, upon their garments white,
      These sacred blossoms wear."

And the mother gave, in tears and pain,
      The flowers she most did love:
She knew she should find them all again
      In the fields of light above.

O, not in cruelty, not in wrath,
      The Reaper came that day;
'Twas an angel visited the green earth,
      And took the flowers away.

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O Mercador de Veneza

Uma citação dessa ótima peça de Shakespeare.

Shylock. To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else,
it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and
hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses,
mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my 1290
bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine
enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath
not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject 1295
to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not 1300
revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will
resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,
what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian
wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by
Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you 1305
teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I
will better the instruction.