<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358472" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Oxford</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is well that there are palaces of peace<br>And discipline and dreaming and desire,<br>Lest we forget our heritage and cease<br>The Spirit’s work—to hunger and aspire:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lest we forget that we were born divine,<br>Now tangled in red battle’s animal net,<br>Murder the work and lust the anodyne,<br>Pains of the beast ‘gainst bestial solace set.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But this shall never be: to us remains<br>One city that has nothing of the beast,<br>That was not built for gross, material gains,<br>Sharp, wolfish power or empire’s glutted feast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are not wholly brute. To us remains<br>A clean, sweet city lulled by ancient streams,<br>A place of visions and of loosening chains,<br>A refuge of the elect, a tower of dreams.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She was not builded out of common stone<br>But out of all men’s yearning and all prayer<br>That she might live, eternally our own,<br>The Spirit’s stronghold—barred against despair.</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=358472" data-title="Oxford de Clive Staples Lewis" data-description="It is well that there are palaces of peace And discipline and dreaming and desire, Lest we forget our heritage and cease The Spirit’s work—to hunger and aspire: Lest we forget that we were born divine, Now tangled in red battle’s animal net..."></div> </div> </div>

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