<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368545" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Michael The Archangel</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Statuette.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">MY white archangel, with thy steadfast eyes <br>Beholding all this empty ghost-filled room, <br>Thy clasped hands resting on the sword of doom, <br>Thy firm, close lips, not made for human sighs <br>Or smiles, or kisses sweet, or bitter cries, <br>But for divine exhorting, holy song <br>And righteous counsel, bold from seraph tongue. <br>Beautiful angel, strong as thou art wise, <br>Would that the sight of thee made wise and strong! <br>Would that this sheathèd sword of thine, which lies <br>Stonily idle, could gleam out among <br>The spiritual hosts of enemies <br>That tempting shriek--'Requite thou wrong with wrong.' <br>Lama Sabachthani,--How long, how long. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">MICHAEL, the leader of the hosts of God, <br>Who warred with Satan for the body of him <br>Whom, living, God had loved--If cherubim <br>With cherubim contended for one clod <br>Of human dust, for forty years that trod <br>The gloomy desert of Heaven's chastisement, <br>Are there not ministering angels sent <br>To battle with the devils that roam abroad, <br>Clutching our living souls? 'The living, still <br>The living, they shall praise Thee!'--Let some great <br>Invisible spirit enter in and fill <br>The howling chambers of hearts desolate; <br>With looks like thine, O Michael, strong and wise, <br>My white archangel with the steadfast eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dinah+Maria+Mulock+Craik">Dinah Maria Mulock Craik</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=368545" data-title="Michael The Archangel de Dinah Maria Mulock Craik" data-description="A Statuette. I. MY white archangel, with thy steadfast eyes Beholding all this empty ghost-filled room, Thy clasped hands resting on the sword of doom, Thy firm, close lips, not made for human sighs Or smiles, or kisses sweet, or bitter crie..."></div> </div> </div>

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