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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408431" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Damascus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where the sinister sun of the Syrians beat<br>On the brittle, bright stubble,<br>And the camels fell back from the swords of the heat,<br>Came Saul, with a fire in the soles of his feet,<br>And a forehead of trouble.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And terrified faces to left and to right,<br>Before and behind him,<br>Fled away with the speed of a maddening fright<br>To the cloughs of the bat and the chasms of night,<br>Each hoping the zealot would fail in his flight<br>To find him and bind him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For, behold you! the strong man of Tarsus came down<br>With breathings of slaughter,<br>From the priests of the city, the chiefs of the town<br>(The lords with the sword, and the sires with the gown),<br>To harry the Christians, and trample, and drown,<br>And waste them like water.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was ever a fighter, this son of the Jews -<br>A fighter in earnest;<br>And the Lord took delight in the strength of his thews,<br>For He knew he was one of the few He could choose<br>To fight out His battles and carry His news<br>Of a marvellous truth through the dark and the dews,<br>And the desert lands furnaced!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He knew he was one of the few He could take<br>For His mission supernal,<br>Whose feet would not falter, whose limbs would not ache,<br>Through the waterless lands of the thorn and the snake,<br>And the ways of the wild - bearing up for the sake<br>Of a Beauty eternal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And therefore the road to Damascus was burned<br>With a swift, sudden brightness;<br>While Saul, with his face in the bitter dust, learned<br>Of the sin which he did ere he tumbled, and turned<br>Aghast at God's whiteness!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of the sin which he did ere he covered his head<br>From the strange revelation.<br>But, thereafter, you know of the life that he led -<br>How he preached to the peoples, and suffered, and sped<br>With the wonderful words which his Master had said,<br>From nation to nation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now would we be like him, who suffer and see,<br>If the Chooser should choose us!<br>For I tell you, brave brothers, whoever you be,<br>It is right, till all learn to look further, and see,<br>That our Master should use us!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is right, till all learn to discover and class,<br>That our Master should task us:<br>For now we may judge of the Truth through a glass;<br>And the road over which they must evermore pass,<br>Who would think for the many, and fight for the mass,<br>Is the road to Damascus.</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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Came Saul, with a fire in the soles of his feet,
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