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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414545" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Secret Dreams</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The abbot is a saintly man.<br> He praises me because I can<br> transcribe and illustrate the word.<br>So that the gospel may be heard</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> by other men on other lands, <br>He says that God has blessed my hands.<br> Although my frame is poor and weak<br> and that my talent is unique.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The holy books that I produce.<br>A bishop would be proud to use<br>From other duties I am free<br> save for my calligraphy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But still pray to God each nigh<br> to heal my body set me right.<br>Because I would much rather be<br> outside and work laboriously.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I must do as He commands<br>The abbot says he understands.<br>How very hard it is for me<br> to write of things I’ll never see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each man must serve as best<br> he can as soldier priest or husbandman.<br>To everyman God gave a skill <br>his part of Gods plan to fulfil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are all where we’re meant to be<br> and must accept this patiently.<br>I trust the Abbot he is wise<br>It’s not for us to criticise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where we are placed in the great scheme.<br>but still I am allowed to dream <br>and in my dreams I’m tall and strong<br> I need no crutch to get along.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but dreams are not reality.<br>I am not as I’d like to be.<br>So I will do the best I can.<br>As God expects from any man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although I sometimes wonder why<br>I must suffer from such frailty.<br>It is the cross I have to bear.<br>My faith in God I can declare</div><div style="margin:10px 0">by copying his Holy Word<br> I wield my quill pen like a sword.<br> I am to frail and weak to fight<br> but I have strength and skill to write.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I transcribe and I illustrate<br> the word of God in copperplate, <br>in coloured inks of different hues.<br> My given task I can’t refuse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The abbot says he can rely<br> upon my skill and my trained eye.<br> To train the younger monks to do<br> the work the way I’ve taught them to.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The time will come when I can’t see.<br> when old age catches up with me.<br>The copying will still go on <br> long after I am dead and gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then I shall reap as I have sown.<br>My secret dreams to God are known.<br>I do not think he will condemn<br> my wish to be like other men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">28-Sep-07</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q>
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 He praises me because I can
 transcribe and illustrate the word.
So that the gospel may be heard

 by other men on other lands, 
He says that God has blessed my hands.
 Although my frame is poor and weak
 and that my t..."></div>
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