<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373782" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Father Malloy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are over there, Father Malloy,<br>Where holy ground is, and the cross marks every grave,<br>Not here with us on the hill --<br>Us of wavering faith, and clouded vision<br>And drifting hope, and unforgiven sins.<br>You were so human, Father Malloy,<br>Taking a friendly glass sometimes with us,<br>Siding with us who would rescue Spoon River<br>From the coldness and the dreariness of village morality.<br>You were like a traveler who brings a little box of sand<br>From the wastes about the pyramids<br>And makes them real and Egypt real.<br>You were a part of and related to a great past,<br>And yet you were so close to many of us.<br>You believed in the joy of life.<br>You did not seem to be ashamed of the flesh.<br>You faced life as it is,<br>And as it changes.<br>Some of us almost came to you, Father Malloy,<br>Seeing how your church had divined the heart,<br>And provided for it,<br>Through Peter the Flame,<br>Peter the Rock.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Lee+Masters">Edgar Lee Masters</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=373782" data-title="Father Malloy de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="You are over there, Father Malloy, Where holy ground is, and the cross marks every grave, Not here with us on the hill -- Us of wavering faith, and clouded vision And drifting hope, and unforgiven sins. You were so human, Father Malloy, Taking a f..."></div> </div> </div>

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