<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384755" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Veils</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Veils, everywhere float veils; veils long and black,<br>Framing white faces, oft-times young and fair,<br>But, like a rose touched by untimely frost,<br>Showing the blighting marks of sorrow's track.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Veils, veils, veils everywhere. They tell the cost<br>Of man-made war. They show the awful toll<br>Paid by the hearts of women for the crimes,<br>The age-old crimes by selfishness ill-named<br>'Justice' and 'Honour' and 'The call of Fate'-<br>High words men use to hide their low estate.<br>About the joy and beauty of this world<br>A long black veil is furled.<br>Even the face of Heaven itself seems lost<br>Behind a veil. It takes a fervent soul<br>In these tense times<br>To visualise a God so long defamed<br>By insolent lips, that send out prayers, and prate<br>Of God's collaboration in dark deeds,<br>So foul they put to shame the fiends of hell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Yet One <br>does<br>dwell<br>In Secret Centres of the Universe-<br>The Mighty Maker; and He hears and heeds<br>The still small voice of soulful, selfless faith;<br>And He is lifting now the veil of death,<br>So long down-dropped between those worlds and earth.<br>Yea! He is giving faith a great new birth<br>By letting echoes from the hidden places<br>Where dwell our dead, fall on love's listening ear.<br>Hearken, and you shall hear<br>The messages which come from those star-spaces!<br>That is the reason why<br>God let so many die;<br>That the vast hordes of suffering hearts might wake<br>Mighty vibrations, and the silence break<br>Between the neighbouring worlds, and lift the veil<br>'Twixt life on earth, and life Beyond. All hail<br>To great Jehovah, Who has given life<br>Eternal, everlasting, after strife!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Veils, long black veils, you shall be bridal white.<br>Eyes, blind with tears, you shall receive your sight,<br>And see your dead alive in Worlds of Light.</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=384755" data-title="Veils de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="Veils, everywhere float veils; veils long and black, Framing white faces, oft-times young and fair, But, like a rose touched by untimely frost, Showing the blighting marks of sorrow's track. Veils, veils, veils everywhere. They tell the cost Of ..."></div> </div> </div>

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