<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420490" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>First-Day Thoughts</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In calm and cool and silence, once again<br>I find my old accustomed place among<br>My brethren, where, perchance, no human tongue<br>Shall utter words; where never hymn is sung,<br>Nor deep-toned organ blown, nor censer swung,<br>Nor dim light falling through the pictured pane!<br>There, syllabled by silence, let me hear<br>The still small voice which reached the prophet's ear;<br>Read in my heart a still diviner law<br>Than Israel's leader on his tables saw!<br>There let me strive with each besetting sin,<br>Recall my wandering fancies, and restrain<br>The sore disquiet of a restless brain;<br>And, as the path of duty is made plain,<br>May grace be given that I may walk therein,<br>Not like the hireling, for his selfish gain,<br>With backward glances and reluctant tread,<br>Making a merit of his coward dread,<br>But, cheerful, in the light around me thrown,<br>Walking as one to pleasant service led;<br>Doing God's will as if it were my own,<br>Yet trusting not in mine, but in His strength alone!</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=420490" data-title="First-Day Thoughts de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="In calm and cool and silence, once again I find my old accustomed place among My brethren, where, perchance, no human tongue Shall utter words; where never hymn is sung, Nor deep-toned organ blown, nor censer swung, Nor dim light falling through t..."></div> </div> </div>

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