<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420558" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines From A Letter To A Young Clerical Friend</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A STRENGTH Thy service cannot tire,<br>A faith which doubt can never dim,<br>A heart of love, a lip of fire,<br>O Freedom's God! be Thou to him!<br>Speak through him words of power and fear,<br>As through Thy prophet bards of old,<br>And let a scornful people hear<br>Once more Thy Sinai-thunders rolled.<br>For lying lips Thy blessing seek,<br>And hands of blood are raised to Thee,<br>And on Thy children, crushed and weak,<br>The oppressor plants his kneeling knee.<br>Let then, O God! Thy servant dare<br>Thy truth in all its power to tell,<br>Unmask the priestly thieves, and tear<br>The Bible from the grasp of hell!<br>From hollow rite and narrow span<br>Of law and sect by Thee released,<br>Oh, teach him that the Christian man<br>Is holier than the Jewish priest.<br>Chase back the shadows, gray and old,<br>Of the dead ages, from his way,<br>And let his hopeful eyes behold<br>The dawn of Thy millennial day;<br>That day when lettered limb and mind<br>Shall know the truth which maketh free,<br>And he alone who loves his kind<br>Shall, childlike, claim the love of Thee!</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=420558" data-title="Lines From A Letter To A Young Clerical Friend de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="A STRENGTH Thy service cannot tire, A faith which doubt can never dim, A heart of love, a lip of fire, O Freedom's God! be Thou to him! Speak through him words of power and fear, As through Thy prophet bards of old, And let a scornful people hear ..."></div> </div> </div>

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