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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408314" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For Ever</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">OUT of the body for ever,<br>Wearily sobbing, “Oh, whither?”<br>A Soul that hath wasted its chances<br>Floats on the limitless ether.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lost in dim, horrible blankness;<br>Drifting like wind on a sea,<br>Untraversed and vacant and moaning,<br>Nor shallow nor shore on the lee!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Helpless, unfriended, forsaken;<br>Haunted and tracked by the Past,<br>With fragments of pitiless voices,<br>And desolate faces aghast!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One saith—“It is well that he goeth<br>Naked and fainting with cold,<br>Who worshipped his sweet-smelling garments,<br>Arrayed with the cunning of old!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Hark! how he crieth, my brothers,<br>With pain for the glittering things<br>He saw on the shoulders of Rulers,<br>And the might in the mouths of the Kings!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“This Soul hath been one of the idlers<br>Who wait with still hands, when they lack<br>For Fortune, like Joseph, to throw them<br>The cup thrust in Benjamin’s sack.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Now, had he been faithful in striving,<br>And warring with Wrong to the sword,<br>He must have passed over these spaces<br>Caught up in the arms of the Lord.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A second: “Lo, Passion was wilful;<br>And, glad with voluptuous sighs,<br>He held it luxurious trouble<br>To ache for luxurious eyes!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“She bound him, the woman resplendent;<br>She withered his strength with her stare;<br>And Faith hath been twisted and strangled<br>With folds of her luminous hair!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Was it well, O you wandering wailer,<br>Abandoned in terrible space,<br>To halt on the highway to Heaven<br>Because of a glittering face?”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And another: “Behold, he was careful:<br>He faltered to think of his Youth,<br>Dejected and weary and footsore,<br>Alone on the dim road to Truth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“If the way had been shorter and greener<br>And brighter, he might have been brave;<br>But the goal was too far and he fainted,<br>Like Peter with Christ on the wave!”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beyond the wild haunts of the mockers—<br>Far in the distance and gray,<br>Floateth that sorrowful spirit<br>Away, and away, and away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pale phantoms fly past it, like shadows:<br>Dim eyes that are blinded with tears;<br>Old faces all white with affliction—<br>The ghosts of the wasted dead years!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Soul that hath ruined us, shiver<br>And moan when you know us,” they cry—<br>“Behold, I was part of thy substance!”—<br>“And I”—saith another—“and I!”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Drifting from starless abysses<br>Into the ether sublime,<br>Where is no upward nor downward,<br>Nor region nor record of Time!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out of the Body for ever<br>No refuge—no succour nor stay—<br>Floated that sorrowful Spirit<br>Away, and away, and away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Kendall">Henry Kendall</a><div class=q>
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Wearily sobbing, “Oh, whither?”
A Soul that hath wasted its chances
Floats on the limitless ether.

Lost in dim, horrible blankness;
Drifting like wind on a sea,
Untraversed and vacant and moaning,
Nor shallow nor sho..."></div>
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