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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381421" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Revealer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(ROOSEVELT)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion … And the men of the city said unto him, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion?—Judges, 14.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The palms of Mammon have disowned <br>The gift of our complacency; <br>The bells of ages have intoned <br>Again their rhythmic irony; <br>And from the shadow, suddenly,<br>’Mid echoes of decrepit rage, <br>The seer of our necessity <br>Confronts a Tyrian heritage. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Equipped with unobscured intent <br>He smiles with lions at the gate,<br>Acknowledging the compliment <br>Like one familiar with his fate; <br>The lions, having time to wait, <br>Perceive a small cloud in the skies, <br>Whereon they look, disconsolate,<br>With scared, reactionary eyes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A shadow falls upon the land,— <br>They sniff, and they are like to roar; <br>For they will never understand <br>What they have never seen before.<br>They march in order to the door, <br>Not knowing the best thing to seek, <br>Nor caring if the gods restore <br>The lost composite of the Greek. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The shadow fades, the light arrives,<br>And ills that were concealed are seen; <br>The combs of long-defended hives <br>Now drip dishonored and unclean; <br>No Nazarite or Nazarene <br>Compels our questioning to prove<br>The difference that is between <br>Dead lions—or the sweet thereof. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But not for lions, live or dead, <br>Except as we are all as one, <br>Is he the world’s accredited<br>Revealer of what we have done; <br>What You and I and Anderson <br>Are still to do is his reward; <br>If we go back when he is gone— <br>There is an Angel with a Sword.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He cannot close again the doors <br>That now are shattered for our sake; <br>He cannot answer for the floors <br>We crowd on, or for walls that shake; <br>He cannot wholly undertake<br>The cure of our immunity; <br>He cannot hold the stars, or make <br>Of seven years a century. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So Time will give us what we earn <br>Who flaunt the handful for the whole,<br>And leave us all that we may learn <br>Who read the surface for the soul; <br>And we’ll be steering to the goal, <br>For we have said so to our sons: <br>When we who ride can pay the toll,<br>Time humors the far-seeing ones. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Down to our nose’s very end <br>We see, and are invincible,— <br>Too vigilant to comprehend <br>The scope of what we cannot sell;<br>But while we seem to know as well <br>As we know dollars, or our skins, <br>The Titan may not always tell <br>Just where the boundary begins.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edwin+Arlington+Robinson">Edwin Arlington Robinson</a><div class=q>
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