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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391840" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Night of Death</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twas a night of dreadful horror, -- <br>Death was sweeping through the land; <br>And the wings of dark destruction <br>Were outstretched from strand to strand </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strong men's hearts grew faint with terror, <br>As the tempest and the waves <br>Wrecked their homes and swept them downward, <br>Suddenly to yawning graves. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Mid the wastes of ruined households, <br>And the tempest's wild alarms, <br>Stood a terror-stricken mother <br>With a child within her arms. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Other children huddled 'round her, <br>Each one nestling in her heart; <br>Swift in thought and swift in action, <br>She at least from one must part. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then she said unto her daughter, <br>&quot;Strive to save one child from death.&quot; <br>&quot;Which one?&quot; said the anxious daughter, <br>As she stood with bated breath. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! the anguish of that mother; <br>What despair was in her eye! <br>All her little ones were precious; <br>Which one should she leave to die? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then outspake the brother Bennie: <br>&quot;I will take the little one.&quot; <br>&quot;No,&quot; exclaimed the anxious mother; <br>&quot;No, my child, it can't be done.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;See! my boy, the waves are rising, <br>Save yourself and leave the child!&quot; <br>&quot;I will trust in Christ,&quot; he answered; <br>Grasped the little one and smiled. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through the roar of wind and waters <br>Ever and anon she cried; <br>But throughout the night of terror <br>Never Bennie's voice replied. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But above the waves' wild surging <br>He had found a safe retreat, <br>As if God had sent an angel, <br>Just to guide his wandering feet. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the storm had spent its fury, <br>And the sea gave up its dead <br>She was mourning for her loved ones, <br>Lost amid that night of dread. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">While her head was bowed in anguish, <br>On her ear there fell a voice, <br>Bringing surcease to her sorrow, <br>Bidding all her heart rejoice. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Didn't I tell you true?&quot; said Bennie, <br>And his eyes were full of light, <br>&quot;When I told you God would help me <br>Through the dark and dreadful night?&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he placed the little darling <br>Safe within his mother's arms, <br>Feeling Christ had been his guardian, <br>'Mid the dangers and alarms. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! for faith so firm and precious, <br>In the darkest, saddest night, <br>Till life's gloom-encircled shadows <br>Fade in everlasting light. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And upon the mount of vision <br>We our loved and lost shall greet, <br>With earth's wildest storms behind us, <br>And its cares beneath our feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frances+Ellen+Watkins+Harper">Frances Ellen Watkins Harper</a><div class=q>
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Death was sweeping through the land; 
And the wings of dark destruction 
Were outstretched from strand to strand 

Strong men's hearts grew faint with terror, 
As the tempest and the waves 
Wrecked their homes ..."></div>
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