<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341829" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Slave And Emperor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Our cavalry have rescued Nazareth from the enemy whose supermen<br>described Christianity as a creed for slaves.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The Emperor mocked at Nazareth<br>In his almighty hour.<br>The Slave that bowed himself to death<br>And walked with slaves in Nazareth,<br>What were his words but wasted breath<br>Before that 'will to power'?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, in the darkest hour of all,<br>When black defeat began,<br>The Emperor heard the mountains quake,<br>He felt the graves beneath him shake,<br>He watched his legions rally and break,<br>And he whimpered as they ran.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I hear a shout that moves the earth,<br>A cry that wakes the dead!<br>Will no one tell me whence they come,<br>For all my messengers are dumb?<br>What power is this that comes to birth<br>And breaks my power?' he said.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, all around his foundering guns,<br>Though dawn was now not far,<br>The darkness filled with a living fear<br>That whispered at the Emperor's ear,<br>'_The armies of the dead draw near<br>Beneath an eastern star._'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">_The trumpet blows in Nazareth.<br>The Slave is risen again.<br>Across the bitter wastes of death<br>The horsemen ride from Nazareth,<br>And the Power we mocked as wasted breath<br>Returns, in power, to reign;<br>Rides on, in white, through Nazareth,<br>To save His world again._</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Noyes">Alfred Noyes</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=341829" data-title="Slave And Emperor de Alfred Noyes" data-description="'Our cavalry have rescued Nazareth from the enemy whose supermen described Christianity as a creed for slaves.' The Emperor mocked at Nazareth In his almighty hour. The Slave that bowed himself to death And walked with slaves in Nazareth, What w..."></div> </div> </div>

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