<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bible Stories: Job (Chapter XXXIX)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you know how the young are born<br>Of mountain-goats ‘midst desert-thorn? <br>The months it takes to deliver, <br>And grow, when they leave forever? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who gives the wild asses freedom <br>And frees them from the town’s boredom? <br>The wilderness is dwelling place; <br>No one shouts at their lazy pace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They head for mountain-pastures green, <br>Where human beings have not been; <br>Will wild oxen remain docile<br>And pass the nights in town’s exile? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can ropes bind them in the furrow? <br>Will they in valleys, too harrow? <br>Can you trust strength of theirs that’s great? <br>Leave your labor’s fruits at their feet? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Will they thresh grain all by themselves? <br>Or stack the yield neatly in shelves? <br>The wings of Ostrich beat idly; <br>She leaves her eggs on ground freely! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If feet crush them, she does not care; <br>But in the sands, she leaves them bare; <br>Disowning young, so ruthlessly, <br>She leaves her brood so cruelly! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Withheld has God from her wisdom; <br>Yet, given swiftness and freedom; <br>Who gives the horse its strength to run, <br>And neck with splendor next to none? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who can make the steed to quiver<br>While loud snorting spreads great terror? <br>With joy, he gallops on the plain, <br>And darts forward when foes are slain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Despite the quivers and the spears, <br>He heads with frenzy when he hears<br>The trumpet-noise and battle-cry, <br>As many clash, to fight and die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who tells the hawk to soar up high<br>And spread its wings, to south to fly? <br>Do eagles build their nests aloft, <br>When you command them in words soft? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He spends the nights on cliffs, ledges; <br>It eyes its prey in far hedges; <br>Its young ones drink blood without fear, <br>Where slain remain, eagles are near!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</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=369877" data-title="Bible Stories: Job (Chapter XXXIX) de John Celes" data-description="Do you know how the young are born Of mountain-goats ‘midst desert-thorn? The months it takes to deliver, And grow, when they leave forever? Who gives the wild asses freedom And frees them from the town’s boredom? The wilderness is dwell..."></div> </div> </div>

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