<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355226" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Christening</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Arrayed-a half angelic sight-<br>In nests of pure baptismal white,<br>The mother to the font doth bring<br>The little, helpless, nameless thing,<br>With hushes soft, and mild caressing,<br>At once to get-a name and blessing!<br>Close to the babe the priest doth stand,<br>The sacred water at his hand,<br>That must assoil the soul within<br>From every stain of Adam's sin.<br>The Infant eyes the mystic scenes,<br>Nor knows what all this wonder means;<br>And now he smiles, as if to say,<br>'I am a Christian made to-day;'<br>Now, frighted, clings to nurse's hold,<br>Shrinking from the water cold,<br>Whose virtues, rightly understood,<br>Are, as Bethesda's waters, good-<br>Strange words! 'The World, the Flesh, the Devil.'<br>Poor Babe, what can it know of evil?<br>But we must silently adore<br>Mysterious truths, and not explore.<br>Enough for him, in after times,<br>When he shall read these artless rhymes,<br>If, looking back upon this day,<br>With easy conscience he can say-<br>'I have in part redeemed the pledge<br>Of my baptismal privilege<br>And vow, and more will strive to flee<br>All that my sponsors kind renounced for me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Lamb">Charles Lamb</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=355226" data-title="The Christening de Charles Lamb" data-description="Arrayed-a half angelic sight- In nests of pure baptismal white, The mother to the font doth bring The little, helpless, nameless thing, With hushes soft, and mild caressing, At once to get-a name and blessing! Close to the babe the priest doth sta..."></div> </div> </div>

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