<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118443" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Combatants</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He seemed to call me, and I shrank dismayed,<br>Deeming he threatened all I held most dear;<br>But when at last his summons I obeyed,<br>Perplexed and full of fear,<br>I found upon his face no angry frown,—<br>Only a visor down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Indignant that his voice, so calm and sweet,<br>In my despite, unto my soul appealed,<br>I cried, "If thou hast courage, turn and meet<br>A foeman full revealed!"<br>And with determined zeal that made me strong,<br>Contended with him long.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But oh, the armor he so meekly bore<br>Was wrought for him in other worlds than ours!<br>In firm defense of what he battled for,<br>Were leagued eternal powers!<br>I fell; yet overwhelmed by my disgrace,<br>At last I saw his face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in its matchless beauty I forgot<br>The constant service to my pledges due,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, with adoring love that sorrowed not,<br>Entreated, "Tell me who<br>Hath so o'erthrown my will and pride of youth!"<br>He answered, "I am Truth."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Florence+Earle+Coates">Florence Earle Coates</a> from <i>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=118443" data-title="Combatants de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="He seemed to call me, and I shrank dismayed,/Deeming he threatened all I held most dear;/But when at last his summons I obeyed,/Perplexed and full of fear,/I found upon his face no angry frown,—/Only a visor down./Indignant that his voice, so ca..."></div> </div> </div>

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