<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117562" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Repentance</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our Father, God! behold us raise<br>Our hopes, our thoughts, our hearts, to thee;<br>Yet not to lift the hymn of praise,<br>But humbly bow the suppliant knee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For we have sinn'd before thy face,<br>Have seen unmoved our brothers’ woe,<br>Though on his cheeks hot tear-drops trace<br>Deep furrows in their burning flow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We knew that on his limbs were bound<br>The fetters man should never wear;<br>We knew that darkness hemm'd him round,<br>And grief, and anguish, and despair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We knew—but in our selfish hearts,<br>There waked no throb of answering pain;<br>Yet, now, at last, the tear-drop starts,<br>We weep the oppress'd one's galling chain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We weep, repenting of the pride<br>That chill'd our narrow souls so long;<br>Oh, Father! may that suppliant tide<br>Efface our deep and cruel wrong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Margaret+Chandler">Elizabeth Margaret Chandler</a> from <i>Poetical Works</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=117562" data-title="Repentance de Elizabeth Margaret Chandler" data-description="Our Father, God! behold us raise/Our hopes, our thoughts, our hearts, to thee;/Yet not to lift the hymn of praise,/But humbly bow the suppliant knee./For we have sinn'd before thy face,/Have seen unmoved our brothers’ woe,/Though on his cheeks h..."></div> </div> </div>

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