<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358450" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Death in Battle</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Open the gates for me,<br>Open the gates of the peaceful castle, rosy in the West,<br>In the sweet dim Isle of Apples over the wide sea’s breast,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Open the gates for me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sorely pressed have I been<br>And driven and hurt beyond bearing this summer day,<br>But the heat and the pain together suddenly fall away,<br>All’s cool and green.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But a moment agone,<br>Among men cursing in fight and toiling, blinded I fought,<br>But the labour passed on a sudden even as a passing thought,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now—alone!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, to be ever alone,<br>In flowery valleys among the mountains and silent wastes untrod,<br>In the dewy upland places, in the garden of God,<br>This would atone!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I shall not see<br>The brutal, crowded faces around me, that in their toil have grown<br>Into the faces of devils—yea, even as my own—<br>When I find thee,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Country of Dreams!<br>Beyond the tide of the ocean, hidden and sunk away,<br>Out of the sound of battles, near to the end of day,<br>Full of dim woods and streams.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clive+Staples+Lewis">Clive Staples Lewis</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=358450" data-title="Death in Battle de Clive Staples Lewis" data-description="Open the gates for me, Open the gates of the peaceful castle, rosy in the West, In the sweet dim Isle of Apples over the wide sea’s breast, Open the gates for me! Sorely pressed have I been And driven and hurt beyond bearing this summer day, B..."></div> </div> </div>

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