<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409621" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga of King Olaf XXII. -- The Nun Of Nidaros</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the convent of Drontheim,<br>Alone in her chamber<br>Knelt Astrid the Abbess,<br>At midnight, adoring,<br>Beseeching, entreating<br>The Virgin and Mother. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She heard in the silence<br>The voice of one speaking,<br>Without in the darkness,<br>In gusts of the night-wind,<br>Now louder, now nearer,<br>Now lost in the distance. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The voice of a stranger<br>It seemed as she listened,<br>Of some one who answered,<br>Beseeching, imploring,<br>A cry from afar off<br>She could not distinguish. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The voice of Saint John,<br>The beloved disciple,<br>Who wandered and waited<br>The Master's appearance,<br>Alone in the darkness,<br>Unsheltered and friendless. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It is accepted<br>The angry defiance,<br>The challenge of battle!<br>It is accepted,<br>But not with the weapons<br>Of war that thou wieldest! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Cross against corselet,<br>Love against hatred,<br>Peace-cry for war-cry!<br>Patience is powerful;<br>He that o'ercometh<br>Hath power o'er the nations! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'As torrents in summer,<br>Half dried in their channels,<br>Suddenly rise, though the<br>Sky is still cloudless,<br>For rain has been falling<br>Far off at their fountains; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So hearts that are fainting<br>Grow full to o'erflowing,<br>And they that behold it<br>Marvel, and know not<br>That God at their fountains<br>Far off has been raining! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Stronger than steel<br>Is the sword of the Spirit;<br>Swifter than arrows<br>The light of the truth is,<br>Greater than anger<br>Is love, and subdueth! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Thou art a phantom,<br>A shape of the sea-mist,<br>A shape of the brumal<br>Rain, and the darkness<br>Fearful and formless;<br>Day dawns and thou art not! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The dawn is not distant,<br>Nor is the night starless;<br>Love is eternal!<br>God is still God, and<br>His faith shall not fail us;<br>Christ is eternal!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</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=409621" data-title="Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga of King Olaf XXII. -- The Nun Of Nidaros" data-description="In the convent of Drontheim, Alone in her chamber Knelt Astrid the Abbess, At midnight, adoring, Beseeching, entreating The Virgin and Mother. She heard in the silence The voice of one speaking, Without in the darkness, In gusts of the night-win..."></div> </div> </div>

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