<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420427" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Word for the Hour</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The firmament breaks up. In black eclipse<br>Light after light goes out. One evil star,<br>Luridly glaring through the smoke of war,<br>As in the dream of the Apocalypse,<br>Drags others down. Let us not weakly weep<br>Nor rashly threaten. Give us grace to keep<br>Our faith and patience; wherefore should we leap<br>On one hand into fratricidal fight,<br>Or, on the other, yield eternal right,<br>Frame lies of laws, and good and ill confound?<br>What fear we? Safe on freedom's vantage ground<br>Our feet are planted; let us there remain<br>In unrevengeful calm, no means untried<br>Which truth can sanction, no just claim denied,<br>The sad spectators of a suicide!<br>They break the lines of Union: shall we light<br>The fires of hell to weld anew the chain<br>On that red anvil where each blow is pain?<br>Draw we not even now a freer breath,<br>As from our shoulders falls a load of death<br>Loathsome as that the Tuscan's victim bore<br>When keen with life to a dead horror bound?<br>Why take we up the accursed thing again?<br>Pity, forgive, but urge them back no more<br>Who, drunk with passion, flaunt disunion's rag<br>With its vile reptile blazon. Let us press<br>The golden cluster on our brave old flag<br>In closer union, and, if numbering less,<br>Brighter shall shine the stars which still remain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Greenleaf+Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</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=420427" data-title="A Word for the Hour de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="The firmament breaks up. In black eclipse Light after light goes out. One evil star, Luridly glaring through the smoke of war, As in the dream of the Apocalypse, Drags others down. Let us not weakly weep Nor rashly threaten. Give us grace to keep ..."></div> </div> </div>

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