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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341378" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Free Will And Fate</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">`You ask me why I envy not<br>The Monarch on his throne.<br>It is that I myself have got<br>A Kingdom of my own:<br>Kingdom by Free Will divine<br>Made inalienably mine,<br>Where over motions blind and brute<br>I live and reign supreme, a Sovereign absolute.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">`Ebbing and flowing as the seas,<br>And surging but to drown,<br>Think you that I will pass to these<br>My Sceptre and my Crown?<br>Unto rebel passions give<br>Empire and prerogative?<br>They are attendants in my train,<br>To come when I command, and crouch as I ordain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">`If Will by long succession be<br>Not arbiter of Fate,<br>Assail its majesty, and see<br>If it doth abdicate.<br>Chains that do the body bind<br>Cannot manacle the mind.<br>What fetters may the heart control,<br>Nor doth the Tyrant live that can enslave the soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">`In Spring, when linnets lift their voice<br>To praise the Lord and bless,<br>They are thus punctual of free choice,<br>Detesting waywardness.<br>Throughout earth, and sky, and sea,<br>Law is loving liberty,<br>That could, but will not, go astray,<br>And, free though to rebel, delighteth to obey.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">`And Spirit, though encased in clay,<br>To sense's grovelling mood<br>Accepteth not, befall what may,<br>Ignoble servitude.<br>In the faggot thrust the torch,<br>Till the flame-tongues search and scorch.<br>Calmly the martyr mounts the pyre,<br>And smiles amid the smoke, and prays above the fire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">`Nor is it Fate directs the waves,<br>Or dominates the wind:<br>They are God's servants, not His slaves,<br>And they surmise His mind.<br>If the planets walk aright<br>Though the dim and trackless night,<br>Nor their true pathway ever miss,<br>Know ye it is because their Will is one with His!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">`What is it rules thy singing season?<br>`What is it rules thy singing season?<br>Instinct, that diviner Reason,<br>To which the wish to know seemeth a sort of treason.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">`Why dost thou ever cease to sing?<br>Singing is such sweet comfort, who,<br>If he could sing the whole year through,<br>Would barter it for anything?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Austin">Alfred Austin</a><div class=q>
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The Monarch on his throne.
It is that I myself have got
A Kingdom of my own:
Kingdom by Free Will divine
Made inalienably mine,
Where over motions blind and brute
I live and reign supreme, a Sovereign absolute.

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