“With the dried blood stiff on my temples I climbed the hill, cursing the satanic way of men, yet knowing myself vile, for they had not known what they were doing, but I betrayed an innocent; and the tears— weak, whiskey tears— would not wash from my brow the blood of a little brother.”
The Village Book (1930) – after a killing of a badger by villagers.
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British ruralist and natural history writer 1895–1977Related quotes

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“I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.”
Matthew 27:4 KJV

"Lust of the Libertines"
Lyrics and poetry

quoted from Tariq Ali - The Clash of Fundamentalisms_ Crusades, Jihads and Modernity-Verso (2002)

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), To Cowper (1842)
Context: p>All for myself the sigh would swell,
The tear of anguish start;
I little knew what wilder woe
Had filled the Poet's heart.I did not know the nights of gloom,
The days of misery;
The long, long years of dark despair,
That crushed and tortured thee.</p

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
Source: The Second World War: Alone

Original: (it) Tesi la mano verso il suo volto asciugandole le lacrime dagli occhi, lacrime che assaporai dalle mie dita, conoscendo così, il sapore della mia vita.
Source: prevale.net