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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390128" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Calm, sad, secure; behind high convent walls,<br> These watch the sacred lamp, these watch and pray:<br>And it is one with them when evening falls,<br> And one with them the cold return of day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These heed not time; their nights and days they make<br> Into a long returning rosary,<br>Whereon their lives are threaded for Christ's sake;<br> Meekness and vigilance and chastity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A vowed patrol, in silent companies,<br> Life-long they keep before the living Christ.<br>In the dim church, their prayers and penances<br> Are fragrant incense to the Sacrificed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Outside, the world is wild and passionate;<br> Man's weary laughter and his sick despair<br>Entreat at their impenetrable gate:<br> They heed no voices in their dream of prayer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They saw the glory of the world displayed;<br> They saw the bitter of it, and the sweet;<br>They knew the roses of the world should fade,<br> And be trod under by the hurrying feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Therefore they rather put away desire,<br> And crossed their hands and came to sanctuary<br>And veiled their heads and put on coarse attire:<br> Because their comeliness was vanity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there they rest; they have serene insight<br> Of the illuminating dawn to be:<br>Mary's sweet Star dispels for them the night,<br> The proper darkness of humanity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Calm, sad, secure; with faces worn and mild:<br> Surely their choice of vigil is the best?<br>Yea! for our roses fade, the world is wild;<br> But there, beside the altar, there is rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ernest+Christopher+Dowson">Ernest Christopher Dowson</a><div class=q>
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