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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368050" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Two Gods</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Twas in the spring, two Gods gazed down upon the bright new land, <br>And one was Hope and one was Fear, and Hope it was who planned<br>This nation with its beauty and its wealth would surely be <br>The shining light to all the Earth - this was the God's decree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Fear it was who scratched his chin and begged to differ there, <br>Said he, that he would wager it would all end in despair, <br>And Hope took up the wager, for he was true to his name, <br>At stake the new land's fate, as Hope and Fear began the game.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And through that spring, the nation thrived, as sailing oceans wide<br>Came people from the worn out lands, where hope had all but died.<br>They cleared and built and farmed and tilled and made the country bloom.<br>They left, in far divided lands, dark thoughts of hate and doom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hope smiled at his companion but Fear's face showed no concern; <br>Still all went well, and soon to summer saw the season turn.<br>The cities grew, the country thrived, they battled drought and flood. <br>In foreign wars, sometimes in vain, spilled of their best their blood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But built unique a people proud, united in their quest, <br>To not allow the old hatreds, to only choose the best.<br>No creed that would divide them, would they in this place allow; <br>They knew the course of history, their stance they would avow. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then autumn came and Hope remained, but near, a nagging Fear.<br>The two gazed from the firmament, they heard the people jeer.<br>The calls to scrap the old ways, and embrace the new found truth; <br>Abandon hope and vision now that doubt and fear were sooth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The old ideas like gilded leaves from wisdom's tree must fall, <br>As all around from ivory towers rang out the strident call, <br>And right across the land there spread a dark and mouldering cloud, <br>And those who shouting warnings soon were trampled by the crowd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The old ways were all wrong - the cry of wreckers seeking power, <br>As winter's cold winds start to blow comes on the final hour, <br>And Fear smiles wide at Hope, and to him slowly shows his hand, <br>And in his palm, with sinking heart, Hope lays the promised land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dennis+N.+O%27Brien">Dennis N. O'Brien</a><div class=q>
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