<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115193" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Daniel Sihastru</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beneath a barren bank, on a foaming river,<br>Where a hesychast fled the world,<br>As evening came a stranger arrived.<br>— "Stephen of Moldavia has come to speak to you!"<br>— "Stephen of Moldavia, Daniel tells him,<br>To wait outside! I am at prayer."<br>— "Good father! I am wounded and defeated,<br>My own mother herself rejected me today!<br>I have come to seek counsel if it would not be better<br>For Moldavia henceforth to bow to the Turks?"<br>Daniel Sihastru said to the prince<br>— "Does my hearing deceive me or am I dreaming?<br>The falchion does not cut off the bowed head,<br>But the chain bends him humiliatingly!<br>What then is life, if lived in serfdom?<br>A holiday on which no one smiled?<br>Life and serfdom cannot coexist,<br>Peace and a tempest do not happen together.<br>Prince! you have the right to turn into graves<br>For freedom, mean and lands;<br>But you cannot humble them!<br>You can break them; but not enslave them!<br>If the hand your sceptre presses on is weak,<br>Cede your place to a more willing man!<br>For better to be conquered and praised,<br>Than a vassal prince in shame!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After these words, Stephen gathered his troops<br>And defeating the pagans raised a monastery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dimitrie+Bolintineanu">Dimitrie Bolintineanu</a> from <i>Legende istorice</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=115193" data-title="Daniel Sihastru de Dimitrie Bolintineanu" data-description="Beneath a barren bank, on a foaming river,/Where a hesychast fled the world,/As evening came a stranger arrived./— "Stephen of Moldavia has come to speak to you!"/— "Stephen of Moldavia, Daniel tells him,/To wait outside! I am at prayer."/— ..."></div> </div> </div>

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