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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=339765" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Memoriam</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">“He asked life of thee, and thou gavest him a long life, even for ever and ever.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life—length of days—the time to work and strive<br>In his Lord's vineyard; to bring heavenly light<br>Into the drear, dark places of the earth,<br>And make them fair and fruitful in His sight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life—it seem'd all so bright and beautiful once!<br>It lay spread out before his kindling eyes,<br>A land of sunny hills, in white mist veil'd,<br>Of sweet green valleys under summer skies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such tender light and tender shadows there!<br>No dazzling blaze, no savage blots of gloom,<br>No keen-cut outline of the barren cliff,<br>No glaring waste,—but all one gentle bloom</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of happy, innocent hope,—a morning tint<br>Of pearly grey and gold, with just a shade<br>Of bright cloud-colour, giving life to it,—<br>He saw not then the havoc death had made.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But soon the white mist melted in the heat<br>Of noonday, and the wasted fields lay bare—<br>Vineyard of Eden—like a bright face, scarred<br>With sin and shame and weariness and care.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And his vague aspiration took a shape.<br>“Grant me, dear Lord, if it seem good to Thee,<br>To labour here, with manhood's utter strength,—<br>O Lord, good Lord, intrust this work to me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Let me have time to toil—a long, long day—<br>To dig and delve and root out wasteful weeds,<br>To cut down briars and thorns, and help to plough<br>Furrows where angels may sow heavenly seeds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Give me to foster, with my faith and love,<br>Frail, early flowers, that fear to droop and fade!<br>Father, I will not shrink for bleeding hands,<br>For heat nor cold—I do not feel afraid!”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His voice was heard—his will accepted. God<br>Gave deep and true fulfilment to his prayer,—<br>Life—life eternal, which should nevermore<br>The taint of death, or sin, or sorrow bear!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh pray, ye blind ones, as the beggar pray'd<br>When He of Nazareth pass'd by! Oh pray<br>With simple faith and worship,—fear ye not<br>God's gracious ear will deafly turn away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye know He bids us to tell out our wants,<br>Knowing them all; give up to Him your will,<br>And trust Him—trust Him. In his wondrous love<br>He deigns the lowliest longing to fulfil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ay, and with that fulfilment which we ne'er<br>Shall grasp or fathom—till we come to see<br>Our strange, mysterious human life unveil'd<br>In the clear daylight of eternity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The beggar ask'd for sight—Christ answer'd him,<br>For his faith's sake, and gave him sight indeed.<br>Just so his silent hands and darken'd eyes<br>Were lifted once, for grace of “life” to plead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And God fulfilled his prayer as utterly!<br>He gave him life—the life of saints above,<br>Beyond all earthly dreaming sweet and glad—<br>An endless life in His eternal love!</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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Into the drear, dark places of the earth,
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