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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=386475" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Faith and Despondency</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The winter wind is loud and wild,<br>Come close to me, my darling child;<br>Forsake thy books, and mateless play;<br>And, while the night is gathering grey,<br>We'll talk its pensive hours away;-- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Ierne, round our sheltered hall<br>November's gusts unheeded call;<br>Not one faint breath can enter here<br>Enough to wave my daughter's hair,<br>And I am glad to watch the blaze<br>Glance from her eyes, with mimic rays;<br>To feel her cheek so softly pressed,<br>In happy quiet on my breast. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But, yet, even this tranquillity<br>Brings bitter, restless thoughts to me;<br>And, in the red fire's cheerful glow,<br>I think of deep glens, blocked with snow;<br>I dream of moor, and misty hill,<br>Where evening closes dark and chill;<br>For, lone, among the mountains cold,<br>Lie those that I have loved of old.<br>And my heart aches, in hopeless pain<br>Exhausted with repinings vain,<br>That I shall greet them ne'er again!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Father, in early infancy,<br>When you were far beyond the sea,<br>Such thoughts were tyrants over me!<br>I often sat, for hours together,<br>Through the long nights of angry weather,<br>Raised on my pillow, to descry<br>The dim moon struggling in the sky; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or, with strained ear, to catch the shock,<br>Of rock with wave, and wave with rock;<br>So would I fearful vigil keep,<br>And, all for listening, never sleep.<br>But this world's life has much to dread,<br>Not so, my Father, with the dead. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Oh! not for them, should we despair,<br>The grave is drear, but they are not there;<br>Their dust is mingled with the sod,<br>Their happy souls are gone to God!<br>You told me this, and yet you sigh,<br>And murmur that your friends must die.<br>Ah! my dear father, tell me why? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For, if your former words were true,<br>How useless would such sorrow be;<br>As wise, to mourn the seed which grew<br>Unnoticed on its parent tree,<br>Because it fell in fertile earth,<br>And sprang up to a glorious birth--<br>Struck deep its root, and lifted high<br>Its green boughs, in the breezy sky. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But, I'll not fear, I will not weep<br>For those whose bodies rest in sleep,--<br>I know there is a blessed shore,<br>Opening its ports for me, and mine;<br>And, gazing Time's wide waters o'er,<br>I weary for that land divine,<br>Where we were born, where you and I<br>Shall meet our Dearest, when we die;<br>From suffering and corruption free,<br>Restored into the Deity.' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Well hast thou spoken, sweet, trustful child!<br>And wiser than thy sire;<br>And worldly tempests, raging wild,<br>Shall strengthen thy desire--<br>Thy fervent hope, through storm and foam,<br>Through wind and ocean's roar,<br>To reach, at last, the eternal home,<br>The steadfast, changeless, shore!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Emily+Jane+Bront%C3%AB">Emily Jane Brontë</a><div class=q>
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Come close to me, my darling child;
Forsake thy books, and mateless play;
And, while the night is gathering grey,
We'll talk its pensive hours away;-- 

'Ierne, round our sheltered hall
November's gusts unheeded c..."></div>
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