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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408825" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Gathering of the Brown-Eyed</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The brown eyes came from Asia, where all mystery is true,<br>Ere the masters of Soul Secrets dreamed of hazel, grey, and blue;<br>And the Brown Eyes came to Egypt, which is called the gypsies’ home,<br>And the Brown Eyes went from Egypt and Jerusalem to Rome.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was strife amongst the Brown Eyes for the false things and the true;<br>There was war amongst the Brown Eyes for the old gods and the new;<br>But the old gods live for ever, and their goddesses are bright<br>In the temples of Old Passions with the Brown Eyes of the White.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Brown Eyes east, by Africa, they saw and conquered Spain,<br>And the Brown Eyes marched as Christians till a Brown Eye met a Dane,<br>The Dane had Brown-Eyed children who in blue eyes took delight—<br>And a son of blue-eyed sailors, brown-eyed, reads the stars to-night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, Knowledge from Old Deserts, where the great stars rocked the world!<br>Oh, courage from grim seaboards, where the Viking ships were hurled!<br>The clear skin of the Norseman, and the desert strength and sight,<br>The power to fathom mankind, and the glorious gift to write!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We can look in souls of women, aye! and let them know we do;<br>We can fix the false eyes earthward; we can meet and match the true;<br>We can startle Voice from Silence, and from Darkness flash the Light—<br>And the eyes to fathom Asia are the Brown Eyes of the White.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There’s a legend in the nations that all Brown Eyes once were true,<br>But were taught in love and warfare by the sinful shades of blue;<br>There’s a story amongst sinners that all Brown Eyes once were kind,<br>Till the Steel-Blue struck the Red-Fire in a hatred that was blind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the Brown Eyes are the saddest at the death of Love and Truth.<br>And the Brown Eyes are the grandest and the dreamiest of Youth.<br>They have risen in rebellion unto leadership sublime—<br>And the grey-eyed queens of women loved, and love them for all time!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Brown Eyes never married Brown Eyes but unhappiness held sway,<br>For the real mates of the Brown Eyes have for ever been the grey.<br>But though Brown Eyes quarrel hotly, though their very souls be wrenched,<br>Never Blue-Eye wronged a Brown-Eye but the Brown-Eye was avenged!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through the breadth of wide Australia, waiting desert-like and vast,<br>We have sent our Brown-Eyed children, who are multiplying fast.<br>Patriots, picture-writers, sages, fill the Brown-Eyed rolls to-night—<br>’Tis the gathering from all ages of the Brown-Eyed of the White.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</a><div class=q>
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