<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410083" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold<br>And very Regent of the untroubled sky,<br>Whom in a dream St. Hilda did behold<br>And heard a woodland music passing by:<br>You shall receive me when the clouds are high<br>With evening and the sheep attain the fold.<br>This is the faith that I have held and hold,<br>And this is that in which I mean to die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Steep are the seas and savaging and cold<br>In broken waters terrible to try;<br>And vast against the winter night the wold,<br>And harbourless for any sail to lie.<br>But you shall lead me to the lights, and I<br>Shall hymn you in a harbour story told.<br>This is the faith that I have held and hold,<br>And this is that in which I mean to die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Help of the half-defeated, House of gold,<br>Shrine of the Sword, and Tower of Ivory;<br>Splendour apart, supreme and aureoled,<br>The Battler's vision and the World's reply.<br>You shall restore me, O my last Ally,<br>To vengence and the glories of the bold.<br>This is the faith that I have held and hold,<br>And this is that in which I mean to die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Envoi</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prince of the degradations, bought and sold,<br>These verses, written in your crumbling sty,<br>Proclaim the faith that I have held and hold<br>And publish that in which I mean to die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Hilaire+Belloc">Hilaire Belloc</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=410083" data-title="Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa de Hilaire Belloc" data-description="I Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold And very Regent of the untroubled sky, Whom in a dream St. Hilda did behold And heard a woodland music passing by: You shall receive me when the clouds are high With evening and the sheep attain the fold. Thi..."></div> </div> </div>

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