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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391841" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Present Age</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Say not the age is hard and cold-<br>I think it brave and grand;<br>When men of diverse sects and creeds<br>Are clasping hand in hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Parsee from his sacred fires<br>Beside the Christian kneels;<br>And clearer light to Islam's eyes<br>The word of Christ reveals.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Brahmin from his distant home<br>Brings thoughts of ancient lore;<br>The Bhuddist breaking bonds of caste<br>Divides mankind no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The meek-eyed sons of far Cathay<br>Are welcome round the board;<br>Not greed, nor malice drives away<br>These children of our Lord.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Judah from whose trusted hands<br>Came oracles divine;<br>Now sits with those around whose hearts<br>The light of God doth shine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Japan unbars her long sealed gates<br>From islands far away;<br>Her sons are lifting up their eyes<br>To greet the coming day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Indian child from forests wild<br>Has learned to read and pray;<br>The tomahawk and scalping knife<br>From him have passed away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From centuries of servile toil<br>The Negro finds release,<br>And builds the fanes of prayer and praise<br>Unto the God of Peace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">England and Russia face to face<br>With Central Asia meet;<br>And on the far Pacific coast,<br>Chinese and natives greet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Crusaders once with sword and shield<br>The Holy Land to save;<br>From Moslem hands did strive to clutch<br>The dear Redeemer's grave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A battle greater, grander far<br>Is for the present age;<br>A crusade for the rights of man<br>To brighten history's page.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where labor faints and bows her head,<br>And want consorts with crime;<br>Or men grown faithless sadly say<br>That evil is the time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is the field, the vantage ground<br>For every earnest heart;<br>To side with justice, truth and right<br>And act a noble part.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To save from ignorance and vice<br>The poorest, humblest child;<br>To make our age the fairest one<br>On which the sun has smiled;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To plant the roots of coming years<br>In mercy, love and truth;<br>And bid our weary, saddened earth<br>Again renew her youth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! earnest hearts! toil on in hope,<br>'Till darkness shrinks from light;<br>To fill the earth with peace and joy,<br>Let youth and age unite:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To stay the floods of sin and shame<br>That sweep from shore to shore;<br>And furl the banners stained with blood,<br>'Till war shall be no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blame not the age, nor think it full<br>Of evil and unrest;<br>But say of every other age,<br>'This one shall be the best.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The age to brighten every path<br>By sin and sorrow trod;<br>For loving hearts to usher in<br>The commonwealth of God.</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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I think it brave and grand;
When men of diverse sects and creeds
Are clasping hand in hand.

The Parsee from his sacred fires
Beside the Christian kneels;
And clearer light to Islam's eyes
The word of Christ revea..."></div>
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