<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115185" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hagar</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Untrodden, drear, and lone,<br> Stretched many a league away,<br> Beneath a burning, noonday sun,<br> The Syrian desert lay.<br> <br> The scorching rays that beat<br> Upon that herbless plain,<br> The dazzling sands, with fiercer heat,<br> Reflected back again.<br> <br> O'er that dry ocean strayed<br> No wandering breath of air,<br> No palm trees cast their cooling shade,<br> No water murmured there.<br> <br> And thither, bowed with shame,<br> Spurned from her master's side,<br> The dark-browed child of Egypt came,<br> Her woe and shame to hide.<br> <br> Drooping, and travel-worn,<br> The boy upon her hung;<br> Who, from his father's tent, that morn,<br> Like a gazelle had sprung.<br> <br> His ebbing breath failed fast,<br> Glazed was his flashing eye;<br> And in that fearful, desert waste,<br> She laid him down to die.<br> <br> But when, in wild despair,<br> She left him to his lot,<br> A voice that filled that breathless air,<br> Said, "Hagar, fear thou not."<br> <br> Then o'er the hot sands flowed<br> A cooling, crystal stream,<br> And angels left their high abode,<br> And ministered to them.<br> <br> Oft, when drear wastes surround<br> My faltering footsteps here,<br> I've thought, I too heard that blest sound<br> Of "Wanderer, do not fear."<br> <br> And then, to light my path<br> On through the evil land,<br> Have the twin angels, Hope and Faith,<br> Walked with me, hand to hand.</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=115185" data-title="Hagar de Anne Lynch Botta" data-description="Untrodden, drear, and lone,/ Stretched many a league away,/ Beneath a burning, noonday sun,/ The Syrian desert lay./ / The scorching rays that beat/ Upon that herbless plain,/ The dazzling sands, with fiercer heat,/ Reflected back again./ / O'..."></div> </div> </div>

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