<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360829" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Vox Ecclesiae, Vox Christi</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not 'neath the altar only,—yet, in sooth, <br>There more than elsewhere,—is the cry, “How long?”<br>The right sown there hath still borne fruit in wrong—<br>The wrong waxed fourfold. Thence, (in hate of truth) <br>O'er weapons blessed for carnage, to fierce youth <br>From evil age, the word hath hissed along:—<br>“Ye are the Lord's: go forth, destroy, be strong: <br>Christ's Church absolves ye from Christ's law of ruth.”<br>Therefore the wine-cup at the altar is <br>As Christ's own blood indeed, and as the blood <br>Of Christ's elect, at divers seasons spilt <br>On the altar-stone, that to man's church, for this, <br>Shall prove a stone of stumbling,—whence it stood <br>To be rent up ere the true Church be built.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dante+Gabriel+Rossetti">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</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=360829" data-title="Vox Ecclesiae, Vox Christi de Dante Gabriel Rossetti" data-description="Not 'neath the altar only,—yet, in sooth, There more than elsewhere,—is the cry, “How long?” The right sown there hath still borne fruit in wrong— The wrong waxed fourfold. Thence, (in hate of truth) O'er weapons blessed for carnage, t..."></div> </div> </div>

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