<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118311" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hope evermore and believe!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hope evermore and believe, O man, for e’en as thy thought<br>So are the things that thou see’st; e’en as thy hope and belief.<br>Cowardly art thou and timid? they rise to provoke thee against them,<br>Hast thou courage? enough, see them exulting to yield.<br>Yea, the rough rock, the dull earth, the wild sea’s furying waters<br>(Violent say’st thou and hard, mighty thou think’st to destroy),<br>All with ineffable longing are waiting their Invader,<br>All, with one varying voice, call to him, Come and subdue;<br>Still for their Conqueror call, and, but for the joy of being conquered<br>(Rapture they will not forego), dare to resist and rebel;<br>Still, when resisting and raging, in soft undervoice say unto him,<br>Fear not, retire not, O man; hope evermore and believe.<br>Go from the east to the west, as the sun and the stars direct thee,<br>Go with the girdle of man, go and encompass the earth.<br>Not for the gain of the gold; for the getting, the hoarding, the having,<br>But for the joy of the deed; but for the Duty to do.<br>Go with the spiritual life, the higher volition and action,<br>With the great girdle of God, go and encompass the earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Go; say not in thy heart, And what then were it accomplished,<br>Were the wild impulse allayed, what were the use or the good!<br>Go, when the instinct is stilled, and when the deed is accomplished,<br>What thou bast done and shalt do, shall be declared to thee then.<br>Go with the sun and the stars, and yet evermore in thy spirit<br>Say to thyself: It is good: yet is there better than it.<br>This that I see is not all, and this that I do is but little;<br>Nevertheless it is good, though there is better than it.</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=118311" data-title="Hope evermore and believe! de Arthur Hugh Clough" data-description="Hope evermore and believe, O man, for e’en as thy thought/So are the things that thou see’st; e’en as thy hope and belief./Cowardly art thou and timid? they rise to provoke thee against them,/Hast thou courage? enough, see them exulting to y..."></div> </div> </div>

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