<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420458" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Between The Gates</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Between the gates of birth and death<br>An old and saintly pilgrim passed,<br>With look of one who witnesseth<br>The long-sought goal at last.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O thou whose reverent feet have found<br>The Master's footprints in thy way,<br>And walked thereon as holy ground,<br>A boon of thee I pray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'My lack would borrow thy excess,<br>My feeble faith the strength of thine;<br>I need thy soul's white saintliness<br>To hide the stains of mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The grace and favor else denied<br>May well be granted for thy sake.'<br>So, tempted, doubting, sorely tried,<br>A younger pilgrim spake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Thy prayer, my son, transcends my gift;<br>No power is mine,' the sage replied,<br>'The burden of a soul to lift<br>Or stain of sin to hide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Howe'er the outward life may seem,<br>For pardoning grace we all must pray;<br>No man his brother can redeem<br>Or a soul's ransom pay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Not always age is growth of good;<br>Its years have losses with their gain;<br>Against some evil youth withstood<br>Weak hands may strive in vain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'With deeper voice than any speech<br>Of mortal lips from man to man,<br>What earth's unwisdom may not teach<br>The Spirit only can.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Make thou that holy guide thine own,<br>And following where it leads the way,<br>The known shall lapse in the unknown<br>As twilight into day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The best of earth shall still remain,<br>And heaven's eternal years shall prove<br>That life and death, and joy and pain,<br>Are ministers of Love.'</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=420458" data-title="Between The Gates de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="Between the gates of birth and death An old and saintly pilgrim passed, With look of one who witnesseth The long-sought goal at last. O thou whose reverent feet have found The Master's footprints in thy way, And walked thereon as holy ground, A b..."></div> </div> </div>

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