<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342172" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Brother Wind</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">“I thank my god for brother wind,”<br>So prayed St. Francis long ago<br>In words of simple, joyous praise,<br>That fill my heart with sudden glow<br>As-braced by winter’s icy draught-<br>With singing soul, and strengthened mind,<br>I humbly join the good Saint’s prayer<br>Thank my God for “Brother Wind.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Brother Wind, who, whispering soft<br>Brings subtlest perfume on his wings,<br>The violet scent of childhood days,<br>The lost delight in simple things;<br>For Brother wind, who whistling keen<br>O’er open plain and storm-scarred hill,<br>Cleanses from mind, and heart, and brain,<br>All thoughts of wrong, and ancient ill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who wafts from scarce-stirred lily beds<br>Incense of early purity,<br>Or wakes to life our laggard souls<br>With stinging fragrance of the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Echoes of Heaven, far-off and faint<br>For weary heart and tired mind,<br>Sweet long-lost memories, old and quaint-<br>These are the gifts of Brother Wind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! Dear St. Francis, let me kneel<br>Before thy shrine with joyous mind<br>Joining my humble, grateful prayer,<br>Thanking our God for Brother Wind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alice+Guerin+Crist">Alice Guerin Crist</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=342172" data-title="Brother Wind de Alice Guerin Crist" data-description="“I thank my god for brother wind,” So prayed St. Francis long ago In words of simple, joyous praise, That fill my heart with sudden glow As-braced by winter’s icy draught- With singing soul, and strengthened mind, I humbly join the good Sain..."></div> </div> </div>

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