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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=383769" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Curse For A Nation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I heard an angel speak last night,<br> And he said 'Write!<br>Write a Nation's curse for me,<br>And send it over the Western Sea.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I faltered, taking up the word:<br> 'Not so, my lord!<br>If curses must be, choose another<br>To send thy curse against my brother.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'For I am bound by gratitude,<br> By love and blood,<br>To brothers of mine across the sea,<br>Who stretch out kindly hands to me.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Therefore,' the voice said, 'shalt thou write<br> My curse to-night.<br>From the summits of love a curse is driven,<br>As lightning is from the tops of heaven.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Not so,' I answered. 'Evermore<br> My heart is sore<br>For my own land's sins: for little feet<br>Of children bleeding along the street:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'For parked-up honors that gainsay<br> The right of way:<br>For almsgiving through a door that is<br>Not open enough for two friends to kiss:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'For love of freedom which abates<br> Beyond the Straits:<br>For patriot virtue starved to vice on<br>Self-praise, self-interest, and suspicion:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'For an oligarchic parliament,<br> And bribes well-meant.<br>What curse to another land assign,<br>When heavy-souled for the sins of mine?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Therefore,' the voice said, 'shalt thou write<br> My curse to-night.<br>Because thou hast strength to see and hate<br>A foul thing done within thy gate.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Not so,' I answered once again.<br> 'To curse, choose men.<br>For I, a woman, have only known<br>How the heart melts and the tears run down.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Therefore,' the voice said, 'shalt thou write<br> My curse to-night.<br>Some women weep and curse, I say<br>(And no one marvels), night and day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And thou shalt take their part to-night,<br> Weep and write.<br>A curse from the depths of womanhood<br>Is very salt, and bitter, and good.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So thus I wrote, and mourned indeed,<br> What all may read.<br>And thus, as was enjoined on me,<br>I send it over the Western Sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Curse</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because ye have broken your own chain<br> With the strain<br>Of brave men climbing a Nation's height,<br>Yet thence bear down with brand and thong<br> On souls of others, -- for this wrong<br> This is the curse. Write.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because yourselves are standing straight<br> In the state<br>Of Freedom's foremost acolyte,<br>Yet keep calm footing all the time<br> On writhing bond-slaves, -- for this crime<br> This is the curse. Write.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because ye prosper in God's name,<br> With a claim<br>To honor in the old world's sight,<br>Yet do the fiend's work perfectly<br> In strangling martyrs, -- for this lie<br> This is the curse. Write.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye shall watch while kings conspire<br>Round the people's smouldering fire,<br> And, warm for your part,<br>Shall never dare -- O shame!<br>To utter the thought into flame<br> Which burns at your heart.<br> This is the curse. Write.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye shall watch while nations strive<br>With the bloodhounds, die or survive,<br> Drop faint from their jaws,<br>Or throttle them backward to death;<br>And only under your breath<br> Shall favor the cause.<br> This is the curse. Write.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye shall watch while strong men draw<br>The nets of feudal law<br> To strangle the weak;<br>And, counting the sin for a sin,<br>Your soul shall be sadder within<br> Than the word ye shall speak.<br> This is the curse. Write.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When good men are praying erect<br>That Christ may avenge His elect<br> And deliver the earth,<br>The prayer in your ears, said low,<br>Shall sound like the tramp of a foe<br> That's driving you forth.<br> This is the curse. Write.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When wise men give you their praise,<br>They shall praise in the heat of the phrase,<br> As if carried too far.<br>When ye boast your own charters kept true,<br>Ye shall blush; for the thing which ye do<br> Derides what ye are.<br> This is the curse. Write.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When fools cast taunts at your gate,<br>Your scorn ye shall somewhat abate<br> As ye look o'er the wall;<br>For your conscience, tradition, and name<br>Explode with a deadlier blame<br> Than the worst of them all.<br> This is the curse. Write.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Go, wherever ill deeds shall be done,<br>Go, plant your flag in the sun<br> Beside the ill-doers!<br>And recoil from clenching the curse<br>Of God's witnessing Universe<br> With a curse of yours.<br> This is the curse. Write.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Barrett+Browning">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a><div class=q>
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 And he said 'Write!
Write a Nation's curse for me,
And send it over the Western Sea.'

I faltered, taking up the word:
 'Not so, my lord!
If curses must be, choose another
To send thy curse against my brother.

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