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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384278" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Servian Legend</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Long, long ago, ere yet our race began,<br>When earth was empty, waiting still for man,<br>Before the breath of life to him was given<br>The angels fell into a strife in heaven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>At length one furious demon grasped the sun<br>And sped away as fast as he could run,<br>And with a ringing laugh of fiendish mirth,<br>He leaped the battlements and fell to earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Dark was it then in heaven, but light below;<br>For there the demon wandered to and fro,<br>Tilting aloft upon a slender pole<br>The orb of day-the pilfering old soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The angels wept and wailed; but through the dark<br>The Great Creator's voice cried sternly: sternly: 'Hark!<br>Who will restore to me the orb of Light,<br>Him will I honor in all heaven's sight.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Then over the battlements there dropped another.<br>(A shrewder angel well there could not be.)<br>Quoth he: 'Behold my love for thee, my brother,<br>For I have left all heaven to stay with thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Thy loneliness and wanderings I will share,<br>Thy heavy burden I will help thee bear.'<br>'Well said,' the demon answered, 'and well done,<br>But I'll not tax you with this heavy sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Your company will cheer me, it is true,<br>And I could never think of burdening you.'<br>Idly they wandered onward, side by side,<br>Till, by and by, they neared a silvery tide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Let's bathe,' the angel suddenly suggested.<br>'Agreed,' the demon answered. 'I'll go last,<br>Because I needs must leave quite unmolested<br>This tiresome sun, which I will now make fast.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>He set the pole well in the sandy turf,<br>And called a jackdaw near to watch the place.<br>Meanwhile the angel paddled in the surf,<br>And playfully dared his brother to a race.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>They swam around together for awhile,<br>The demon always keeping near his prize,<br>Till presently the angel, with a smile,<br>Proposed a healthful diving exercise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The demon hesitated. 'But,' thought he,<br>'The jackdaw will inform me with a cry<br>If this good brother tries deceiving me;<br>I will not be outdone by him-not I!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Down, down they went. The angel in a trice<br>Rose up again, and swift to shore he sped.<br>The jackdaw shrieked, but lo! a mile of ice<br>The demon found had frozen o'er his head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>He swore an oath, and gathered all his force,<br>And broke the ice, to see the sun, of course,<br>Held firmly in the radiant angel's hand,<br>Who sailed away toward the heavenly land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>He gave pursuit. Wrath lent speed to his chase;<br>All heaven leaned down to watch the exciting race.<br>On, on they came, and still the Evil One<br>Gained on the angel burdened with the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>With bated breath and faces white as ghosts,<br>Over the walls leaned heaven's affrighted hosts.<br>Up, up, still up, the angel almost spent,<br>Threw one foot forward o'er the battlement.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The demon seized the other with a shout;<br>So fierce his clutch he pulled the bottom out,<br>As the good angel, fainting, laid the sun<br>Down by the throne of God, who cried: 'Well done!<br>Thy great misfortune shall be made divine:<br>Man will I create with a foot like thine!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a><div class=q>
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When earth was empty, waiting still for man,
Before the breath of life to him was given
The angels fell into a strife in heaven.


At length one furious demon grasped the sun
And sped away as fast as he coul..."></div>
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