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1 " And voices in me said, if you were a manYou would take a stick and break him now, and finish him off. But must I confess how I liked him,How glad I was he had come like a guest in quiet, to drink at my water-troughAnd depart peaceful, pacified, and thankless,Into the burning bowels of this earth? Was it cowardice, that I dared not kill him?Was it perversity, that I longed to talk to him?Was it humility, to feel so honoured?I felt so honoured. "
― D.H. Lawrence , Snake and Other Poems