11/19/2013

You have to love the classics

A POISON TREE


    I was angry with my friend:
    I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
    I was angry with my foe:
    I told it not, my wrath did grow.

    And I watered it in fears,
    Night and morning with my tears;
    And I sunnèd it with smiles,
    And with soft deceitful wiles.


    And it grew both day and night,
    Till it bore an apple bright;
    And my foe beheld it shine,
    And he knew that it was mine,


    And into my garden stole
    When the night had veiled the pole:
    In the morning glad I see
    My foe outstretched beneath the tree.


    (BLAKE, William)