<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117254" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>“The Winds and the Sea Obey Him”</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who once hath heard the sea above her graves<br> Sing to the stars her requiem, and on whom<br>Her spell is laid of shoreward-sliding waves,<br> Alternate gleam and gloom,<br>In reverent mood and silent, standing where<br> Her hundred throats their diapason raise,<br>Hath found the very perfectness of prayer<br> And plenitude of praise.<br>Thenceforward is his hope a thing apart<br> From man’s perplexing dogmas, good or ill;<br>Deep in the sacred silence of his heart<br> His faith abideth, still:—<br>A faith that fails not, steadfast, humble, kind,<br> Amid a vexing multitude of creeds<br>That bend and break with every passing wind,<br> Like tempest-trampled reeds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The tide of man’s belief may ebb or flow;<br> Its swift mutations, many though they be,<br>He heedeth not who once hath come to know<br> The anthem of the sea.<br>From sages and their blindly fashioned lore<br> He turns, to watch with reverential eyes<br>The seas men fear serve ceaselessly before<br> The God whom men despise!<br>Through length of days and year succeeding year<br> Earth’s strongest power serves Heaven’s still stronger one,<br>And all the winds, in holy-hearted fear,<br> To do His bidding run.<br>Ah, likewise serving, restless hearts, be still,<br> And learn, like little children, of the way—<br>Secure in Him, Whose strong enduring will<br> The winds and sea obey!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Guy+Wetmore+Carryl">Guy Wetmore Carryl</a> from <i>The Garden of Years and Other 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=117254" data-title="“The Winds and the Sea Obey Him” de Guy Wetmore Carryl" data-description="Who once hath heard the sea above her graves/ Sing to the stars her requiem, and on whom/Her spell is laid of shoreward-sliding waves,/ Alternate gleam and gloom,/In reverent mood and silent, standing where/ Her hundred throats their diapason ra..."></div> </div> </div>

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