<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420527" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Was A Stranger, And Ye Took Me In</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Neath skies that winter never knew<br>The air was full of light and balm,<br>And warm and soft the Gulf wind blew<br>Through orange bloom and groves of palm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A stranger from the frozen North,<br>Who sought the fount of health in vain,<br>Sank homeless on the alien earth,<br>And breathed the languid air with pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">God's angel came! The tender shade<br>Of pity made her blue eye dim;<br>Against her woman's breast she laid<br>The drooping, fainting head of him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She bore him to a pleasant room,<br>Flower-sweet and cool with salt sea air,<br>And watched beside his bed, for whom<br>His far-off sisters might not care.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She fanned his feverish brow and smoothed<br>Its lines of pain with tenderest touch.<br>With holy hymn and prayer she soothed<br>The trembling soul that feared so much.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through her the peace that passeth sight<br>Came to him, as he lapsed away<br>As one whose troubled dreams of night<br>Slide slowly into tranquil day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sweetness of the Land of Flowers<br>Upon his lonely grave she laid<br>The jasmine dropped its golden showers,<br>The orange lent its bloom and shade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And something whispered in her thought,<br>More sweet than mortal voices be<br>'The service thou for him hast wrought<br>O daughter! hath been done for me.'</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=420527" data-title="I Was A Stranger, And Ye Took Me In de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="'Neath skies that winter never knew The air was full of light and balm, And warm and soft the Gulf wind blew Through orange bloom and groves of palm. A stranger from the frozen North, Who sought the fount of health in vain, Sank homeless on the a..."></div> </div> </div>

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