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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419118" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Meditations Upon A Candle</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Man's like a candle in a candlestick,<br>Made up of tallow and a little wick;<br>And as the candle when it is not lighted,<br>So is he who is in his sins benighted.<br>Nor can a man his soul with grace inspire,<br>More than can candles set themselves on fire.<br>Candles receive their light from what they are not;<br>Men grace from Him for whom at first they care not.<br>We manage candles when they take the fire;<br>God men, when he with grace doth them inspire.<br>And biggest candles give the better light,<br>As grace on biggest sinners shines most bright.<br>The candle shines to make another see,<br>A saint unto his neighbour light should be.<br>The blinking candle we do much despise,<br>Saints dim of light are high in no man's eyes.<br>Again, though it may seem to some a riddle,<br>We use to light our candles at the middle.<br>True light doth at the candle's end appear,<br>And grace the heart first reaches by the ear.<br>But 'tis the wick the fire doth kindle on,<br>As 'tis the heart that grace first works upon.<br>Thus both do fasten upon what's the main,<br>And so their life and vigour do maintain.<br>The tallow makes the wick yield to the fire,<br>And sinful flesh doth make the soul desire<br>That grace may kindle on it, in it burn;<br>So evil makes the soul from evil turn.<br>But candles in the wind are apt to flare,<br>And Christians, in a tempest, to despair.<br>The flame also with smoke attended is,<br>And in our holy lives there's much amiss.<br>Sometimes a thief will candle-light annoy,<br>And lusts do seek our graces to destroy.<br>What brackish is will make a candle sputter;<br>'Twixt sin and grace there's oft' a heavy clutter.<br>Sometimes the light burns dim, 'cause of the snuff,<br>Sometimes it is blown quite out with a puff;<br>But watchfulness preventeth both these evils,<br>Keeps candles light, and grace in spite of devils.<br>Nor let not snuffs nor puffs make us to doubt,<br>Our candles may be lighted, though puffed out.<br>The candle in the night doth all excel,<br>Nor sun, nor moon, nor stars, then shine so well.<br>So is the Christian in our hemisphere,<br>Whose light shows others how their course to steer.<br>When candles are put out, all's in confusion;<br>Where Christians are not, devils make intrusion.<br>Then happy are they who such candles have,<br>All others dwell in darkness and the grave.<br>But candles that do blink within the socket,<br>And saints, whose eyes are always in their pocket,<br>Are much alike; such candles make us fumble,<br>And at such saints good men and bad do stumble.<br>Good candles don't offend, except sore eyes,<br>Nor hurt, unless it be the silly flies.<br>Thus none like burning candles in the night,<br>Nor ought to holy living for delight.<br>But let us draw towards the candle's end:<br>The fire, you see, doth wick and tallow spend,<br>As grace man's life until his glass is run,<br>And so the candle and the man is done.<br>The man now lays him down upon his bed,<br>The wick yields up its fire, and so is dead.<br>The candle now extinct is, but the man<br>By grace mounts up to glory, there to stand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Bunyan">John Bunyan</a><div class=q>
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Made up of tallow and a little wick;
And as the candle when it is not lighted,
So is he who is in his sins benighted.
Nor can a man his soul with grace inspire,
More than can candles set themselves on fire.
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