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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395418" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>God</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Thou, who's infinite in space,<br>Alive in ever-moving matter,<br>Eternal in the flow of time,<br>God faceless, with a trinity of faces!<br>Soul unified and omnipresent,<br>Who needs no place or reason,<br>Whom none can ever comprehend,<br>Whose being permeates all things,<br>Encompassing, creating, guarding,<br>Thou, called by us God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although a great mind might contrive<br>To fix the ocean's depths,<br>To count the sands, the rays of stars,<br>Thou can't be summed or fixed!<br>Enlightened souls who have emerged <br>From your creative light<br>Cannot begin to grasp your ways:<br>Our thought alone aspires to thee,<br>But in your magnitude is lost,<br>A moment in eternity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From depths eternal thou invoked<br>Primordial substances of chaos<br>Within thine very self thou birthed<br>Eternity before all time.<br>And before time from thine self alone<br>Thou shinest forth within thyself.<br>All light originates in thee.<br>Creating all with but a single word<br>And reaching forth in new creation,<br>Thou wast, thou art, and thou will ever be!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou incarnate the chain of life,<br>Thou nourish and sustain it.<br>Thou joinest starts with ends.<br>Thou bringest life to all through death.<br>New suns are born from thee<br>In flowing streams of sparks.<br>As on a clear and freezing day,<br>A hoarfrost dusting shines,<br>And floats, and churns and sparkles,<br>As do the stars beneath thy vault. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A multitude of shining spheres<br>Floats off into infinity.<br>They all fulfill thy laws,<br>And cast their vivifying rays.<br>But all these brilliant lanterns-<br>This mass of glowing crystal-<br>This roiling crowd of golden waves-<br>These burning elements-<br>Or all these gleaming worlds as one-<br>Compare to thee like night to day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Compared to thee the earthly realm<br>Is like a droplet in the sea.<br>What is this universe I see?<br>And what am I, compared to thee?<br>If, in this airy sea, I wish<br>To multiply a million worlds<br>By other worlds a hundred times-<br>Then venture to compare the sum to thee,<br>All this would be a tiny speck;<br>So I, compared to thee, am naught.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm Naught! But thou shinest through me<br>With all the splendor of your virtue;<br>Thou showest yourself through me<br>Like sun inside a tiny water drop.<br>I'm Naught! But still I can feel life,<br>Like something hungering I fly,<br>I'm always soaring high above.<br>To be with you is my soul's wish,<br>It contemplates, reflects and thinks:<br>If I exist-thou art as well.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou art! As nature's order shows,<br>My heart affirms the same to me,<br>My reason's sure of it:<br>Tho art-And I'm no longer naught!<br>A fraction of the universe's whole,<br>It seems that I repose in nature's<br>Critical center where you started<br>With the creation of corporeal beasts,<br>And ended with the heav'nly spirits:<br>Through me, you fused the chain of life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am the link of all existing worlds,<br>I am the outer brink of matter,<br>I am the focal point of living things,<br>I am the starting place of the divine;<br>Although my flesh rots into ash,<br>My mind commands the thunderbolts,<br>I'm king-I'm slave - I'm worm-I'm God!<br>But though I am miraculous,<br>Whence did I come?-that no one knows.<br>I could not by myself have risen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Creator, I am your invention!<br>I am a creature of your wisdom.<br>O, source of life, bestower of blessings,<br>My soul and king! <br>According to your iron laws <br>My self eternal must needs pass<br>Across the borne of death;<br>My spirit's clothed in mortal garb<br>And I return through death alone,-<br>To your eternity - O, father!-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou art inscrutable, transcendent!<br>I understand that all my soul's<br>Imaginings are powerless<br>Your shadow to describe;<br>But when thou must be glorified<br>To pay such tribute we frail men<br>One course alone can follow.<br>We venture upwards to thy realm,<br>To lose ourselves in thy vast otherness<br>And shed our tears of gratitude.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gavril+Romanovich+Derzhavin">Gavril Romanovich Derzhavin</a><div class=q>
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Alive in ever-moving matter,
Eternal in the flow of time,
God faceless, with a trinity of faces!
Soul unified and omnipresent,
Who needs no place or reason,
Whom none can ever comprehend,
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