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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Genesis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the outer world that was before this earth,<br> That was before all shape or space was born,<br>Before the blind first hour of time had birth,<br> Before night knew the moonlight or the morn;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, before any world had any light,<br> Or anything called God or man drew breath,<br>Slowly the strong sides of the heaving night<br> Moved, and brought forth the strength of life and death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the sad shapeless horror increate<br> That was all things and one thing, without fruit,<br>Limit, or law; where love was none, nor hate,<br> Where no leaf came to blossom from no root;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The very darkness that time knew not of,<br> Nor God laid hand on, nor was man found there,<br>Ceased, and was cloven in several shapes; above<br> Light, and night under, and fire, earth, water, and air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sunbeams and starbeams, and all coloured things,<br> All forms and all similitudes began;<br>And death, the shadow cast by life's wide wings,<br> And God, the shade cast by the soul of man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then between shadow and substance, night and light,<br> Then between birth and death, and deeds and days,<br>The illimitable embrace and the amorous fight<br> That of itself begets, bears, rears, and slays,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The immortal war of mortal things that is<br> Labour and life and growth and good and ill,<br>The mild antiphonies that melt and kiss,<br> The violent symphonies that meet and kill,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All nature of all things began to be.<br> But chiefliest in the spirit (beast or man,<br>Planet of heaven or blossom of earth or sea)<br> The divine contraries of life began.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the great labour of growth, being many, is one;<br> One thing the white death and the ruddy birth;<br>The invisible air and the all-beholden sun,<br> And barren water and many-childed earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And these things are made manifest in men<br> From the beginning forth unto this day:<br>Time writes and life records them, and again<br> Death seals them lest the record pass away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For if death were not, then should growth not be,<br> Change, nor the life of good nor evil things;<br>Nor were there night at all nor light to see,<br> Nor water of sweet nor water of bitter springs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For in each man and each year that is born<br> Are sown the twin seeds of the strong twin powers;<br>The white seed of the fruitful helpful morn,<br> The black seed of the barren hurtful hours.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he that of the black seed eateth fruit,<br> To him the savour as honey shall be sweet;<br>And he in whom the white seed hath struck root,<br> He shall have sorrow and trouble and tears for meat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And him whose lips the sweet fruit hath made red<br> In the end men loathe and make his name a rod;<br>And him whose mouth on the unsweet fruit hath fed<br> In the end men follow and know for very God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And of these twain, the black seed and the white,<br> All things come forth, endured of men and done;<br>And still the day is great with child of night,<br> And still the black night labours with the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And each man and each year that lives on earth<br> Turns hither or thither, and hence or thence is fed;<br>And as a man before was from his birth,<br> So shall a man be after among the dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Algernon+Charles+Swinburne">Algernon Charles Swinburne</a><div class=q>
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