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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=119355" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Old St. David's</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">"What an image of peace and rest." — Longfellow</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Radnor Valley, from the world apart,<br>The little Church stands peaceful as of old,<br>Guarding her memories, yet half untold,<br>Deep in the silent places of her heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life comes, and passes by her, as it wills;<br>But musing on loved things evanishèd,<br>She keeps the generations of the dead,—<br>Herself unchanged amid her beauteous hills:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unchanged, though full of change her days have been,<br>Since builded here, ere Washington was born,<br>She seemed the home of exiled hearts forlorn—<br>The open portal to hope's fair demesne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Close as the ivy that adorns her walls,<br>So grateful thoughts have twined themselves and clung<br>About this lowly sanctuary, sprung<br>From that necessity which ever calls</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The soul of man to seek for something higher,—<br>Anhungered for a more celestial bread<br>Than that wherewith his earthly life is fed,—<br>And faith was kindled here, and patriot fire!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea; from this sacred pile, in days gone by,<br>Brave men, to duty nobly dedicate,<br>Went forth to strive against despotic fate—<br>For liberty content to live—or die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some came not back; but some returned, victorious,—<br>Needing nor badge nor ribbon on the breast,—<br>To find here, by the little Church, their rest:<br>Heroes and martyrs lowly—yet how glorious!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Healed of all hurt, emparadised afar<br>Though they abide, yet to our reverent sight,<br>About their graves there lingers still a light<br>Which is not as the light of moon or star;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And very peaceful after stormy days,<br>And sturdy as the antique oaks remain,<br>Which sentineled the burial of Wayne,—<br>Illustrious beyond the need of praise,—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old Radnor Church bestows her benison,<br>Calling to us who from the past yet borrow,<br>To love the right, and living for the morrow,<br>Fulfill the hopes of heroes that are gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, through whate'er of change the future brings,<br>Shall she our memories and faiths defend,—<br>A temple of the highest to the end,<br>Immortal through the love of deathless things!</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>Mine and Thine</i><div class=q>
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