<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416555" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Anselmo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Years did I vainly seek the good Lord's grace--,<br>Prayed, fasted, and did penance dire and dread;<br>Did kneel, with bleeding knees and rainy face,<br>And mouth the dust, with ashes on my head;<br>Yea, still with knotted scourge the flesh I flayed,<br>Rent fresh the wounds, and moaned and shrieked insanely;<br>And froth oozed with the pleadings that I made,<br>And yet I prayed on vainly, vainly, vainly!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A time, from out of swoon I lifted eye,<br>To find a wretched outcast, gray and grim,<br>Bathing my brow, with many a pitying sigh,<br>And I did pray God's grace might rest on him--.<br>Then, lo! A gentle voice fell on mine ears--<br>'Thou shalt not sob in suppliance hereafter;<br>Take up thy prayers and wring them dry of tears,<br>And lift them, white and pure with love and laughter!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So is it now for all men else I pray;<br>So is it I am blest and glad alway.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</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=416555" data-title="Anselmo de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="Years did I vainly seek the good Lord's grace--, Prayed, fasted, and did penance dire and dread; Did kneel, with bleeding knees and rainy face, And mouth the dust, with ashes on my head; Yea, still with knotted scourge the flesh I flayed, Rent fre..."></div> </div> </div>

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