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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=356192" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>They Desire A Better Country</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would not if I could undo my past,<br>Tho' for its sake my future is a blank;<br>My past, for which I have myself to thank,<br>For all its faults and follies first and last.<br>I would not cast anew the lot once cast,<br>Or launch a second ship for one that sank,<br>Or drug with sweets the bitterness I drank,<br>Or break by feasting my perpetual fast.<br>I would not if I could: for much more dear<br>Is one remembrance than a hundred joys, <br>More than a thousand hopes in jubilee;<br>Dearer the music of one tearful voice<br>That unforgotten calls and calls to me,<br>'Follow me here, rise up, and follow here.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What seekest thou far in the unknown land?<br>In hope I follow joy gone on before,<br>In hope and fear persistent more and more,<br>As the dry desert lengthens out its sand.<br>Whilst day and night I carry in my hand<br>The golden key to ope the golden door <br>Of golden home; yet mine eye weepeth sore<br>For the long journey that must make no stand.<br>And who is this that veiled doth walk with thee?<br>Lo, this is Love that walketh at my right;<br>One exile holds us both, and we are bound<br>To selfsame home-joys in the land of light.<br>Weeping thou walkest with him; weepeth he?—<br>Some sobbing weep, some weep and make no sound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A dimness of a glory glimmers here<br>Thro' veils and distance from the space remote, <br>A faintest far vibration of a note<br>Reaches to us and seems to bring us near,<br>Causing our face to glow with braver cheer,<br>Making the serried mist to stand afloat,<br>Subduing langour with an antidote,<br>And strengthening love almost to cast out fear,<br>Till for one moment golden city walls<br>Rise looming on us, golden walls of home,<br>Light of our eyes until the darkness falls;<br>Then thro' the outer darkness burdensome <br>I hear again the tender voice that calls,<br>'Follow me hither, follow, rise, and come.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Christina+Georgina+Rossetti">Christina Georgina Rossetti</a><div class=q>
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I would not if I could undo my past,
Tho' for its sake my future is a blank;
My past, for which I have myself to thank,
For all its faults and follies first and last.
I would not cast anew the lot once cast,
Or launch a second ship for one that..."></div>
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