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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396217" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Prayer Of Nature</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Father of Light! great God of Heaven!<br>Hear'st thou the accents of despair?<br>Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven?<br>Can vice atone for crimes by prayer?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Father of Light, on thee I call!<br>Thou seest my soul is dark within;<br>Thou who canst'mark the sparrow's fall,<br>Avert from me the death of sin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No shrine I seek, to sects unknown;<br>Oh, point to me the path of truth!<br>Thy dread omnipotence I own;<br>Spare, yet amend, the faults of youth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let bigots rear a gloomy fane,<br>Let superstitition hail the pile,<br>Let priests, to spread their sable reign,<br>With tales of mystic rites beguile.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall man confine his Maker's sway<br>To Gothic domes of mouldering stone?<br>Thy temple is the face of the day;<br>Earth, ocean, heaven, thy boundless throne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall man condemn his race to hell,<br>Unless they bend in pompous form?<br>Tell us that all, of one who fell,<br>Must perish in the mingling storm?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall each pretend to reach the skies,<br>Yet doom his brother to expire,<br>Whose soul a different hope supplies,<br>Or doctrines less severe inspire?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall these, by creeds they can't expound,<br>Prepare a fancied bliss or woe?<br>Shall reptiles, grovelling on the ground,<br>Their great Creator's purpose know?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall those, who live for self alone,<br>Whose years float on in a daily crime -<br>Shall they by Faith for guilt atone,<br>And live beyond the bounds of Time?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Father! no prophet's laws I seek,-<br>Thy laws in Nature's works appear;-<br>I own myself corrupt and weak,<br>Yet will I pray, for thou wilt hear!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou, who canst guide the wandering star<br>Through trackness realms of other's space;<br>Who calm'st the elemental war,<br>Whose hand from pole to pole I trace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou, who in wisdom placed me here,<br>Who, when thou wilt, canst take me hence,<br>Ah! whilst I tread this earthly sphere,<br>Extend to me thy wide defence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To Thee, my God, to thee I call!<br>Whatever weal or woe betide,<br>By thy command I rise or fall,<br>In thy protection I confide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If, when this dust to dust's restored,<br>My soul shall float on airy wing,<br>How shall thy glorious name adored<br>Inspire her feedle voice to sing!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, if this fleeting spirit share<br>With clay the gaves eternal bed,<br>While life yet throbs I raise my prayer,<br>Though doom'd no more to quit the dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To Thee I breathe my humble strain;<br>Grateful for all thy mercies past,<br>And hope, my God, to thee again<br>This erring life may fly at last.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">December 29, 1806</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Byron">Byron</a><div class=q>
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Hear'st thou the accents of despair?
Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven?
Can vice atone for crimes by prayer?

Father of Light, on thee I call!
Thou seest my soul is dark within;
Thou who canst'mark the spa..."></div>
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