<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419161" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Upon The Barren Fig-Tree In God's Vineyard</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What, barren here! in this so good a soil?<br>The sight of this doth make God's heart recoil<br>From giving thee his blessing; barren tree,<br>Bear fruit, or else thine end will cursed be!<br>Art thou not planted by the water-side?<br>Know'st not thy Lord by fruit is glorified?<br>The sentence is, Cut down the barren tree:<br>Bear fruit, or else thine end will cursed be.<br>Hast thou been digg'd about and dunged too,<br>Will neither patience nor yet dressing do?<br>The executioner is come, O tree,<br>Bear fruit, or else thine end will cursed be!<br>He that about thy roots takes pains to dig,<br>Would, if on thee were found but one good fig,<br>Preserve thee from the axe: but, barren tree,<br>Bear fruit, or else thy end will cursed be!<br>The utmost end of patience is at hand,<br>'Tis much if thou much longer here doth stand.<br>O cumber-ground, thou art a barren tree.<br>Bear fruit, or else thine end will cursed be!<br>Thy standing nor they name will help at all;<br>When fruitful trees are spared, thou must fall.<br>The axe is laid unto thy roots, O tree!<br>Bear fruit, or else thine end will cursed be.</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> <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=419161" data-title="Upon The Barren Fig-Tree In God's Vineyard de John Bunyan" data-description="What, barren here! in this so good a soil? The sight of this doth make God's heart recoil From giving thee his blessing; barren tree, Bear fruit, or else thine end will cursed be! Art thou not planted by the water-side? Know'st not thy Lord by fru..."></div> </div> </div>

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