Between the Bars: Comments on 'What Waste and Withers There'https://betweenthebars.org/posts/commentfeed/139982013-11-27T18:57:47ZComment2013-11-27T18:57:47Zarcadiaego/people/show/6084tag:betweenthebars.org,2013-11-27:/posts/13998/what-waste-and-withers-there/comments
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<span class='comment-date'>Posted 10 years, 4 months ago.</span>
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The poem is not mine but another section of The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde. :)
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Comment2013-11-27T18:55:33ZRobert Outman/people/show/895tag:betweenthebars.org,2013-11-27:/posts/13998/what-waste-and-withers-there/comments
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Comment2013-10-15T09:58:16ZRibbons/people/show/7594tag:betweenthebars.org,2013-10-15:/posts/13998/what-waste-and-withers-there/comments
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This was an incredible and very touching read, i felt honoured to be transcribing for you. <br />You are clearly a very intelligent man, with a great knowledge of life. <br />Edwards story is a very sad but i'm sure extremely common one ,all over the world.. people need to recognise change and allow it to grow rather than stamp all over it before it has a chance to blossom.
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Comment2013-10-15T09:30:36Zarcadiaego/people/show/6084tag:betweenthebars.org,2013-10-15:/posts/13998/what-waste-and-withers-there/comments
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Hi Robert,<br /><br />Wow. Thank you so much for writing this incredibly powerful and eloquent peice. You and the people you speak of in this blog are truly an inspiration and a chastisement to many of us outside prison walls. <br /><br />"They think a murderer's heart would taint<br /> Each simple seed they sow.<br />It is not true! God's kindly earth<br /> Is kindlier than men know,<br />And the red rose would but blow more red,<br /> The white rose whiter blow.<br /><br />Out of his mouth a red, red rose!<br /> Out of his heart a white!<br />For who can say by what strange way,<br /> Christ brings his will to light,<br />Since the barren staff the pilgrim bore<br /> Bloomed in the great Pope's sight?<br /><br />But neither milk-white rose nor red<br /> May bloom in prison air;<br />The shard, the pebble, and the flint,<br /> Are what they give us there:<br />For flowers have been known to heal<br /> A common man's despair."
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