<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340431" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet 04</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I was drawn here from a distant place, <br>'Twas not to pray nor hear our friend's address, <br>But, gazing once more on your winsome face, <br>To worship there Ideal Loveliness. <br>On that pure shrine that has too long ignored <br>The gifts that once I brought so frequently <br>I lay this votive offering, to record <br>How sweet your quiet beauty seemed to me. <br>Enchanting girl, my faith is not a thing <br>By futile prayers and vapid psalm-singing <br>To vent in crowded nave and public pew. <br>My creed is simple: that the world is fair, <br>And beauty the best thing to worship there, <br>And I confess it by adoring you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alan+Seeger">Alan Seeger</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=340431" data-title="Sonnet 04 de Alan Seeger" data-description="If I was drawn here from a distant place, 'Twas not to pray nor hear our friend's address, But, gazing once more on your winsome face, To worship there Ideal Loveliness. On that pure shrine that has too long ignored The gifts that once I brou..."></div> </div> </div>

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