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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=339728" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Afar Off</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it a will o' the wisp, or is dawn breaking,<br>That our horizon wears so strange a hue?<br>Is it but one more dream, or are we waking<br>To find at last that dreams are coming true?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Far off and faint, a golden line is streaking<br>The cloudy night that shrouds the life of man;<br>It is the sun that dim eyes have been seeking,<br>Through all blind pathways, since the world began.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">3.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sign to weary heart and waiting nation<br>That day will come to bring them their release<br>That, late or soon, through storm and tribulation,<br>Or with slow change, the earth shall rest in peace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">4.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That One, invoked, with half- despairing passion.<br>Through years and years of wrong, will right us then;<br>Will take away, in rude or gentle fashion,<br>The curse that man has laid on brother- men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">5.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, blessed One! our souls go out to meet thee,<br>At whose feet Hope will fold her tired wing;<br>And yet we know not how we ought to greet thee,<br>And take the gifts thy bounteous arms will bring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">6.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come not, O friend! with vengeful weapons, borrowed<br>Of them that warred against thee — sword and flame;<br>For all alike have suffered and have sorrowed,<br>And all alike have sinned against thy name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">7.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come thou to men who groan in sore affliction<br>A breathing spirit of new life and grace;<br>Come in thy robes of light and benediction,<br>That all may recognize thy perfect face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">8.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, as thou must, come soon, for them than need thee —<br>And thou wilt come — Deliverer great and strong!<br>Brighten, O tender dawn, though few may heed thee,<br>And bring the day that we have sought so long!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">9.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No class strife then, each man against his neighbour,<br>No waste, no want, to breed the plague of crime;<br>No insolent pomp, no hard and sordid labour,<br>No wars, no famines, in that happier time!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">10.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But pleasant homes, and good days growing better;<br>Contented hearts throughout the tranquil land,<br>That keep the law, in spirit and in letter,<br>Which we have been so dull to understand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">11.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And fruitful work, instead of barren duty,<br>With fruitful rest and leisure interweaved;<br>And life made bright with plenty and with beauty,<br>And souls made strong with noble aims achieved.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">12.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Great Art, no more the plaything of the idle,<br>But nurse and handmaid to all human needs;<br>Great Nature, curbed no more with bit and bridle,<br>Nor men's religion crushed in bitter creeds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">13.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor sacred Love a crime, a jest, an error,<br>To keep or lose, to give or to suppress,<br>A secret shame, an anguish and a terror,<br>A curse to them that it was meant to bless.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">14.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All round our narrow lives the tide encroaches,<br>Distant and dim, but spreading far and fast.<br>O Liberty, thy longed- for reign approaches<br>That is to give man's birthright back at last!<br>vasts;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">15.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And must we go, who see the new age dawning,<br>While yet we suffer in the pangs of birth,<br>Nor breathe one breath of the divinest morning<br>That yet has come to bless our waiting earth?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">16.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, must we go, just when the day is growing?<br>Oh, must we waste with vast and vain desires,<br>Like sparks put out when viewless winds are blowing,<br>We, lit and quickened with supernal fires</div><div style="margin:10px 0">17.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are we to read no more the wondrous pages<br>Of this great tale that evermore goes on?<br>Will suns and stars light up eternal ages<br>With happier worlds — and we alone be gone?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">18.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never to learn the moral of the story —<br>Why we have toiled for what we must not keep,<br>Why we have fought to win no crown of glory,<br>Why we have sown what unborn hands will reap.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">19.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never to learn wherefore our Maker sent us<br>With these immortal passions in our breast.<br>Ah me! Ah me! Wherewith can we content us<br>To know so much, and not to know the rest!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ada+Cambridge">Ada Cambridge</a><div class=q>
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Is it a will o' the wisp, or is dawn breaking,
That our horizon wears so strange a hue?
Is it but one more dream, or are we waking
To find at last that dreams are coming true?

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Far off and faint, a golden line is streaking
The cloudy night..."></div>
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