<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118416" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Repose in Egypt</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O happy mother! while the man wayworn<br>Sleeps by his ass and dreams of daily bread,<br>Wakeful and heedful for thy infant care,<br>O happy mother! while thy husband sleeps,<br>Art privileged, O blessed one, to see<br>Celestial strangers sharing in thy task,<br>And visible angels waiting on thy child.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take, O young soul, O infant heaven-desired,<br>Take and fear not the cates, although of earth,<br>Which to thy hands celestial hands extend,<br>Take and fear not: such vulgar meats of life<br>Thy spirit lips no more must scorn to pass;<br>The seeming ill, contaminating joys,<br>Thy sense divine no more be loth to allow;<br>The pleasures as the pains of our strange life<br>Thou art engaged, self-compromised, to share.<br>Look up, upon thy mother’s face there sits<br>No sad suspicion of a lurking ill,<br>No shamed confession of a needful sin;<br>Mistrust her not, although of earth she too:<br>Look up! the bright-eyed cherubs overhead<br>Strew from mid air fresh flowers to crown the just.<br>Look! thy own father’s servants these, and thine,<br>Who at his bidding and at thine are here.<br>In thine own word was it not said long since<br>Butter and honey shall he eat, and learn<br>The evil to refuse and choose the good:<br>Fear not, O babe divine, fear not, accept;<br>O happy mother, privileged to see,<br>While the man sleeps, the sacred mystery.</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=118416" data-title="Repose in Egypt de Arthur Hugh Clough" data-description="O happy mother! while the man wayworn/Sleeps by his ass and dreams of daily bread,/Wakeful and heedful for thy infant care,/O happy mother! while thy husband sleeps,/Art privileged, O blessed one, to see/Celestial strangers sharing in thy task,/An..."></div> </div> </div>

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