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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374218" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Stolen God--Lazarus To Dives</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We do not clamour for vengeance,<br>We do not whine for fear;<br>We have cried in the outer darkness<br>Where was no man to hear.<br>We cried to man and he heard not;<br>Yet we thought God heard us pray;<br>But our God, who loved and was sorry -<br>Our God is taken away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ours were the stream and the pasture,<br>Forest and fen were ours;<br>Ours were the wild wood-creatures,<br>The wild sweet berries and flowers.<br>You have taken our heirlooms from us,<br>And hardly you let us save<br>Enough of our woods for a cradle,<br>Enough of our earth for a grave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You took the wood and the cornland,<br>Where still we tilled and felled;<br>You took the mine and quarry,<br>And all you took you held.<br>The limbs of our weanling children<br>You crushed in your mills of power;<br>And you made our bearing women toil<br>To the very bearing hour.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You have taken our clean quick longings,<br>Our joy in lover and wife,<br>Our hope of the sunset quiet<br>At the evening end of life;<br>You have taken the land that bore us,<br>Its soil and stone and sod;<br>You have taken our faith in each other -<br>And now you have taken our God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When our God came down from Heaven<br>He came among men, a Man,<br>Eating and drinking and working<br>As common people can;<br>And the common people received Him<br>While the rich men turned away.<br>But what have we to do with a God<br>To whom the rich men pray?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He hangs, a dead God, on your altars,<br>Who lived a Man among men,<br>You have taken away our Lord<br>And we cannot find Him again.<br>You have not left us a handful<br>Of even the earth He trod . . .<br>You have made Him a rich man's idol<br>Who came as a poor man's God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He promised the poor His heaven,<br>He loved and lived with the poor;<br>He said that the rich man's shadow<br>Should never darken His door:<br>But bishops and priests lie softly,<br>Drink full and are fully fed<br>In the Name of the Lord, who had not<br>Where to lay His head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is the God you have stolen,<br>As you steal all else--in His name.<br>You have taken the ease and the honour,<br>Left us the toil and the shame.<br>You have chosen the seat of Dives,<br>We lie where Lazarus lay;<br>But, by God, we will not yield you our God,<br>You shall not take Him away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All else we had you have taken;<br>All else, but not this, not this.<br>The God of Heaven is ours, is ours,<br>And the poor are His, are His.<br>Is He ours? Is He yours? Give answer!<br>For both He cannot be.<br>And if He is ours--O you rich men,<br>Then whose, in God's name, are ye?</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>
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We do not whine for fear;
We have cried in the outer darkness
Where was no man to hear.
We cried to man and he heard not;
Yet we thought God heard us pray;
But our God, who loved and was sorry -
Our God is taken aw..."></div>
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