<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414729" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Their evensong; my pleasure for friend Thad</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sit outside the monastery<br> and pass an hour pleasantly<br>Listening to the brothers chant<br>I find their plain song elegant.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I wonder why, it puzzles me<br>Why do some men voluntarily<br> decide upon monastic life.<br>Are they afraid of worldly strife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It seems to me that they retreat<br> from normal life; admit defeat.<br>I’m sure they see it differently <br>To me it is a mystery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What can they possibly achieve.<br>This question really baffles me.<br> I must suppose that they believe.<br>It’s pleasing to their deity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I am not a Christian<br>I have my own philosophy.<br>More suited to a simple man.<br>Which is all I claim to be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> They have a choice they can decide<br> to worship God in their own way.<br>I am content to sit outside<br>I do not have the right to say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What they should do or should not do.<br>My own motto is tolerance <br> that’s why I come to listen to<br>the plain song. which my ears entrance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When night falls and all is still.<br> The final notes have died away.<br>I exercise my own free will<br> and rise to make my homeward way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My God does not expect me to<br> stick to a rigid discipline.<br>The way the brothers have to do.<br>To pray or not the choice is mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">14/07/2009<br>http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</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> <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=414729" data-title="Their evensong; my pleasure for friend Thad de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="I sit outside the monastery and pass an hour pleasantly Listening to the brothers chant I find their plain song elegant. I wonder why, it puzzles me Why do some men voluntarily decide upon monastic life. Are they afraid of worldly strife. It ..."></div> </div> </div>

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