<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117748" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Alliance</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is the weird of a world-old folk,<br> That not till the last link breaks,<br>Not till the night is blackest,<br> The blood of Hengist wakes.<br>When the sun is black in heaven,<br> The moon as blood above,<br>And the earth is full of hatred,<br> This people tells its love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In change, eclipse, and peril,<br> Under the whole world's scorn,<br>By blood and death and darkness<br> The Saxon peace is sworn;<br>That all our fruit be gathered,<br> And all our race take hands,<br>And the sea be a Saxon river<br> That runs through Saxon lands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lo! not in vain we bore him;<br> Behold it! not in vain,<br>Four centuries' dooms of torture<br> Choked in the throat of Spain,<br>Ere priest or tyrant triumph -<br> We know how well - we know -<br>Bone of that bone can whiten,<br> Blood of that blood can flow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Deep grows the hate of kindred,<br> Its roots take hold on hell;<br>No peace or praise can heal it,<br> But a stranger heals it well.<br>Seas shall be red as sunsets,<br> And kings' bones float as foam,<br>And heaven be dark with vultures,<br> The night our son comes home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=G.K.+Chesterton">G.K. Chesterton</a> from <i>The Wild Knight 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=117748" data-title="An Alliance de G.K. Chesterton" data-description="This is the weird of a world-old folk,/ That not till the last link breaks,/Not till the night is blackest,/ The blood of Hengist wakes./When the sun is black in heaven,/ The moon as blood above,/And the earth is full of hatred,/ This people tells..."></div> </div> </div>

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