<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396963" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To J. M.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let Fate or Insufficiency provide<br>Mean ends for men who what they are would be:<br>Penned in their narrow day no change they see<br>Save one which strikes the blow to brutes and pride.<br>Our faith is ours and comes not on a tide:<br>And whether Earth's great offspring, by decree,<br>Must rot if they abjure rapacity,<br>Not argument but effort shall decide.<br>They number many heads in that hard flock:<br>Trim swordsmen they push forth: yet try thy steel.<br>Thou, fighting for poor humankind, wilt feel<br>The strength of Roland in thy wrist to hew<br>A chasm sheer into the barrier rock,<br>And bring the army of the faithful through.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Meredith">George Meredith</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396963" data-title="To J. M. de George Meredith" data-description="Let Fate or Insufficiency provide Mean ends for men who what they are would be: Penned in their narrow day no change they see Save one which strikes the blow to brutes and pride. Our faith is ours and comes not on a tide: And whether Earth's great..."></div> </div> </div>

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