<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408931" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Spirits for Good</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We come with peace and reason,<br>We come with love and light,<br>To banish black self-treason<br>And everlasting night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We know no god nor devil,<br>We neither drive nor lead—<br>We come to banish evil<br>In thought as well as deed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And this our grandest mission,<br>And this our purest worth;<br>To banish superstition,<br>The blackest curse on earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We come to pass no sentence,<br>For ours is not the power—<br>The coward’s vain repentance<br>But wastes the waiting hour.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">’Tis not for us to lengthen<br>The years of wasted lives;<br>We come to help and strengthen<br>The goodness that survives.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We promise nought hereafter,<br>We cannot conquer pain,<br>But work, and rest, and laughter,<br>Will soothe the tortured brain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That which is lost, we cannot<br>Restore to any one—<br>But Truth and Right must triumph,<br>And Justice must be done!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We come in many guises;<br>But every one is plain<br>To each pure thought that rises<br>Again and yet again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are ourselves and human,<br>And ours our destiny;<br>The souls of Man and Woman<br>Divorced by Vanity.</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> <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=408931" data-title="The Spirits for Good de Henry Lawson" data-description="We come with peace and reason, We come with love and light, To banish black self-treason And everlasting night. We know no god nor devil, We neither drive nor lead— We come to banish evil In thought as well as deed. And this our grandest missi..."></div> </div> </div>

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