<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115141" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Books for the people</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Let there be light."<br> <br> Light to the darkened mind<br> Bear, like the sun, the world's wide circle round,<br> Bright messengers that speak without a sound!<br> Sight on the spirit blind<br> Shall fall whene'er ye pass; your living ray<br> Shall change the night of ages into day: --<br> God speed ye on your way!<br> <br> In closet and in hall,<br> Too long alone your message hath been spoken:<br> The spell of gold that bound ye there is broken;<br> Go forth and shine on all;<br> The world's inheritance, the legacy<br> Bequeathed by Genius to the race are ye;<br> Be like the sunlight, free!<br> <br> A mighty power ye wield!<br> Ye wake grim centuries from their deep repose,<br> And bid their hoarded treasuries unclose,<br> The spoils of time to yield.<br> Ye hold the gift of immortality;<br> Bard, sage, and seer, whose fame shall never die,<br> Live through your ministry.<br> <br> Noiseless upon your path,<br> Freighted with lore, romance, and song, ye speed,<br> Moving the world, in custom and in creed,<br> Waking its love or wrath.<br> Tyrants, that blench not on the battle-plain,<br> Quail at your silent coming, and in vain<br> Would bind the riven chain.<br> <br> Shrines, that embalm great souls!<br> Where yet the illustrious dead high converse hold,<br> As gods spake through their oracles of old;<br> Upon your mystic scrolls,<br> There lives a spell to guide our destiny;<br> The fire by night, the pillared cloud by day,<br> Upon our upward way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Lynch+Botta">Anne Lynch Botta</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115141" data-title="Books for the people de Anne Lynch Botta" data-description=""Let there be light."/ / Light to the darkened mind/ Bear, like the sun, the world's wide circle round,/ Bright messengers that speak without a sound!/ Sight on the spirit blind/ Shall fall whene'er ye pass; your living ray/ Shall change the n..."></div> </div> </div>

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