<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384619" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Empty Bowl</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I held the golden vessel of my soul<br>And prayed that God would fill it from on high.<br>Day after day the importuning cry<br>Grew stronger-grew, a heaven-accusing dole<br>Because no sacred waters laved my bowl.<br>'So full the fountain, Lord, wouldst Thou deny<br>The little needed for a soul's supply?<br>I ask but this small portion of Thy whole.'<br>Then from the vast invisible Somewhere,<br>A voice, as one love-authorized by Him,<br>Spake, and the tumult of my heart was stilled.<br>'Who wants the waters must the bowl prepare;<br>Pour out the self, that chokes it to the brim,<br>But emptied vessels, from the Source are filled.'</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> <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=384619" data-title="The Empty Bowl de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="I held the golden vessel of my soul And prayed that God would fill it from on high. Day after day the importuning cry Grew stronger-grew, a heaven-accusing dole Because no sacred waters laved my bowl. 'So full the fountain, Lord, wouldst Thou deny..."></div> </div> </div>

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