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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420523" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hymn of The Dunkers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">KLOSTER KEDAR, EPHRATA, PENNSYLVANIA (1738)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SISTER MARIA CHRISTINA sings</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wake, sisters, wake! the day-star shines;<br>Above Ephrata's eastern pines<br>The dawn is breaking, cool and calm.<br>Wake, sisters, wake to prayer and psalm!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Praised be the Lord for shade and light,<br>For toil by day, for rest by night!<br>Praised be His name who deigns to bless<br>Our Kedar of the wilderness!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our refuge when the spoiler's hand<br>Was heavy on our native land;<br>And freedom, to her children due,<br>The wolf and vulture only knew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We praised Him when to prison led,<br>We owned Him when the stake blazed red;<br>We knew, whatever might befall,<br>His love and power were over all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He heard our prayers; with outstretched arm<br>He led us forth from cruel harm;<br>Still, wheresoe'er our steps were bent,<br>His cloud and fire before us went!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The watch of faith and prayer He set,<br>We kept it then, we keep it yet.<br>At midnight, crow of cock, or noon,<br>He cometh sure, He cometh soon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He comes to chasten, not destroy,<br>To purge the earth from sin's alloy.<br>At last, at last shall all confess<br>His mercy as His righteousness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The dead shall live, the sick be whole,<br>The scarlet sin be white as wool;<br>No discord mar below, above,<br>The music of eternal love!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sound, welcome trump, the last alarm!<br>Lord God of hosts, make bare thine arm,<br>Fulfil this day our long desire,<br>Make sweet and clean the world with fire!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweep, flaming besom, sweep from sight<br>The lies of time; be swift to smite,<br>Sharp sword of God, all idols down,<br>Genevan creed and Roman crown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Quake, earth, through all thy zones, till all<br>The fanes of pride and priesteraft fall;<br>And lift thou up in place of them<br>Thy gates of pearl, Jerusalem!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lo! rising from baptismal flame,<br>Transfigured, glorious, yet the same,<br>Within the heavenly city's bound<br>Our Kloster Kedar shall be found.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He cometh soon! at dawn or noon<br>Or set of sun, He cometh soon.<br>Our prayers shall meet Him on His way;<br>Wake, sisters, wake! arise and pray!</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>
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SISTER MARIA CHRISTINA sings

Wake, sisters, wake! the day-star shines;
Above Ephrata's eastern pines
The dawn is breaking, cool and calm.
Wake, sisters, wake to prayer and psalm!

Praised be the Lord f..."></div>
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