<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118212" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shadow and Light</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cease, empty Faith, the Spectrum saith,<br>I was, and lo, have been;<br>I, God, am nought: a shade of thought,<br>Which, but by darkness seen,<br>Upon the unknown yourselves have thrown,<br>Placed it and light between.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At morning’s birth on darkened earth,<br>And as the evening sinks,<br>Awfully vast abroad is cast<br>The lengthened form that shrinks<br>And shuns the sight in midday light,<br>And underneath you slinks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From barren strands of wintry lands<br>Across the seas of time,<br>Borne onward fast ye touch at last<br>An equatorial clime;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In equatorial noon sublime<br>At zenith stands the sun,<br>And lo, around, far, near, are found<br>Yourselves, and Shadow none.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A moment! yea! but when the day<br>At length was perfect day!<br>A moment! so! and light we know<br>With dark exchanges aye,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor morn nor eve shall shadow leave<br>Your sunny paths secure,<br>And in your sight that orb of light<br>Shall humbler orbs obscure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet withal, ’tis shadow all<br>Whate’er your fancies dream,<br>And I (misdeemed) that was, that seemed,<br>Am not, whate’er I seem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Hugh+Clough">Arthur Hugh Clough</a><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=118212" data-title="Shadow and Light de Arthur Hugh Clough" data-description="Cease, empty Faith, the Spectrum saith,/I was, and lo, have been;/I, God, am nought: a shade of thought,/Which, but by darkness seen,/Upon the unknown yourselves have thrown,/Placed it and light between./At morning’s birth on darkened earth,/And..."></div> </div> </div>

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