Forgiveness

Forgiveness written by William Henry Davies

From "Forty New Poems", (1918)

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Stung by a spiteful wasp,
  I let him go life free;
That proved the difference
  In him and me.

For, had I killed my foe,
  It had proved me at once
The stronger wasp, and no
  More difference.

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