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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414709" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Mystery Remains story poem</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">By my lanthorn dimly burning.<br>I have trouble in discerning<br> the faint words scrawled upon the page<br>By the hand of a long dead sage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What I study is forbidden <br>a secret I must keep hidden.<br> I dare not study it by day<br> and that is why I hide away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the dark hours of the night.<br>I study by a lanthorns light.<br>Lest the priesthood should suspect.<br>For they would kill me to protect</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> from what they see as wizardry<br>although it’s only chemistry.<br>The shaveling priests of Mother Church<br>have full authority to search.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As and when and where they choose<br>.a power open to abuse<br>And they abuse it readily <br>in their search for men like me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men who defy authority, <br> pursue their studies secretly.<br>The church pretends to safeguard souls<br> but aims to keep in place controls.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which keep the people ignorant <br>so that they will accept the cant. <br>The falsehoods and hypocrisy <br>of the priests more easily.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The common man must never know.<br>Because the church will have it so.<br>That education is the key<br> to knowledge which will set them free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From religious domination.<br>To me a foul abomination.<br>The Holy Book from which they preach<br>written in a language will do not teach<br> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To any but the favoured few <br>Who think the same way that they do.<br>Which will maintain the Status Quo<br>beneath the piety they show.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am convinced that in due course<br>The population will enforce<br> the will of the majority<br>And strip them of authority.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Award all men the liberty<br>to study what they want to openly.<br>I know too well if I am caught<br> my labours will have been for naught</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though I must study secretly<br>I hide my records carefully.<br>Perhaps one day someone will find <br>the writings which I leave behind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was betrayed so I must die<br> but I will die with head held high.<br>Accused of practising magic<br> they’ll burn me as a heretic.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The papers I hid secretly<br> lie waiting for discovery.<br>By some scholar of a future time<br>When learning is not seen as crime.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.<br>I found this manuscript by chance<br> and thought it worth a second glance.<br>My hobby is church history.<br>I can’t resist a mystery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although the parchment was fragile<br> and written in an archaic style.<br> Some parts of it I could translate<br> sufficient to appreciate..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This document deserved to be<br> translated more efficiently.<br>By someone who could understand<br> old manuscripts written by hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So I enlisted expert aid.<br> A scholar of the highest grade<br> from Oxford university<br> to solve the mystery for me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It caught the scholar’s interest<br> and easily passed every test.<br> To prove it was no forgery.<br>Which was of little help to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although the scholar could translate<br> there was no way that he could state.<br>The dead authors identity<br>which must remain a mystery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A fact which disappointed me.<br> Alhough I gladly paid his fee.<br>I would much rather that I knew <br>who we could ascribe it to.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I must accept we’ll never know<br> who wrote these word so long ago.<br>Because he failed to sign his name.<br>He is denied his well earned fame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His careful notes on alchemy<br> though hidden from his enemy.<br>Have formed the basis of research <br>which can’t be repressed by the church.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As it was in the distant past <br>before the people over cast<br> the dead hand of the Holy See<br> and achieved their liberty </div><div style="margin:10px 0">15/04/2009<br> http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">15/04/2009</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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I have trouble in discerning
 the faint words scrawled upon the page
By the hand of a long dead sage.

What I study is forbidden 
a secret I must keep hidden.
 I dare not study it by day
 and that is why I hide away.
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