<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420457" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Benedicite</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">God's love and peace be with thee, where<br>Soe'er this soft autumnal air<br>Lifts the dark tresses of thy hair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whether through city casements comes<br>Its kiss to thee, in crowded rooms,<br>Or, out among the woodland blooms,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It freshens o'er thy thoughtful face,<br>Imparting, in its glad embrace,<br>Beauty to beauty, grace to grace!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fair Nature's book together read,<br>The old wood-paths that knew our tread,<br>The maple shadows overhead,--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The hills we climbed, the river seen<br>By gleams along its deep ravine,--<br>All keep thy memory fresh and green.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where'er I look, where'er I stray,<br>Thy thought goes with me on my way,<br>And hence the prayer I breathe to-day;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O'er lapse of time and change of scene,<br>The weary waste which lies between<br>Thyself and me, my heart I lean.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou lack'st not Friendship's spell-word, nor<br>The half-unconscious power to draw<br>All hearts to thine by Love's sweet law.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With these good gifts of God is cast<br>Thy lot, and many a charm thou hast<br>To hold the blessed angels fast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If, then, a fervent wish for thee<br>The gracious heavens will heed from me,<br>What should, dear heart, its burden be?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sighing of a shaken reed,--<br>What can I more than meekly plead<br>The greatness of our common need?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">God's love,--unchanging, pure, and true,--<br>The Paraclete white-shining through<br>His peace,--the fall of Hermon's dew!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With such a prayer, on this sweet day,<br>As thou mayst hear and I may say,<br>I greet thee, dearest, far away!</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=420457" data-title="Benedicite de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="God's love and peace be with thee, where Soe'er this soft autumnal air Lifts the dark tresses of thy hair. Whether through city casements comes Its kiss to thee, in crowded rooms, Or, out among the woodland blooms, It freshens o'er thy thoughtfu..."></div> </div> </div>

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