<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374192" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Monk</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHEN in my narrow cell I lie, <br>The long day's penance done at last, <br>I see the ghosts of days gone by, <br>And hear the voices of the past. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I see the blue-gray wood-smoke curled <br>From hearths where life has rhymed to love, <br>I see the kingdoms of the world-- <br>The glory and the power thereof, </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And cry, 'Ah, vainly have I striven!' <br>And then a voice calls, soft and low: <br>'Thou gavest My Earth to win My Heaven; <br>But Heaven-on-Earth thou mayest not know!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>It is not for Thy Heaven, O Lord, <br>That I renounced Thy pleasant earth-- <br>The ship, the furrow, and the sword-- <br>The dreams of death, the dreams of birth! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Weary of vigil, fast, and prayer, <br>Weak in my hope and in my faith-- <br>O Christ, for whom this cross I bear, <br>Meet me beside the gate of Death! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>When the night comes, then let me rest <br>(O Christ, who sanctifiest pain!) <br>Falling asleep upon Thy breast, <br>And, if Thou wilt, wake never again!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edith+Nesbit">Edith Nesbit</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=374192" data-title="The Monk de Edith Nesbit" data-description="WHEN in my narrow cell I lie, The long day's penance done at last, I see the ghosts of days gone by, And hear the voices of the past. I see the blue-gray wood-smoke curled From hearths where life has rhymed to love, I see the kingdoms of t..."></div> </div> </div>

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