<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37709" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Rachel III</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sprung from the blood of Israel's scatter'd race,<br> At a mean inn in German Aarau born,<br> To forms from antique Greece and Rome uptorn,<br> Trick'd out with a Parisian speech and face,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Imparting life renew'd, old classic grace;<br> Then, soothing with thy Christian strain forlorn,<br> A-Kempis! her departing soul outworn,<br> While by her bedside Hebrew rites have place--</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Ah, not the radiant spirit of Greece alone<br> She had--one power, which made her breast its home!<br> In her, like us, there clash'd, contending powers,<br> Germany, France, Christ, Moses, Athens, Rome.<br> The strife, the mixture in her soul, are ours;<br> Her genius and her glory are her own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Arnold">Matthew Arnold</a> from <i>Sonnets</i><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=37709" data-title="Rachel III de Matthew Arnold" data-description="Sprung from the blood of Israel's scatter'd race,/ At a mean inn in German Aarau born,/ To forms from antique Greece and Rome uptorn,/ Trick'd out with a Parisian speech and face,/ Imparting life renew'd, old classic grace;/ Then, soothing with th..."></div> </div> </div>

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