<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420605" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Overruled</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The threads our hands in blindness spin<br>No self-determined plan weaves in;<br>The shuttle of the unseen powers<br>Works out a pattern not as ours.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! small the choice of him who sings<br>What sound shall leave the smitten strings;<br>Fate holds and guides the hand of art;<br>The singer's is the servant's part.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wind-harp chooses not the tone<br>That through its trembling threads is blown;<br>The patient organ cannot guess<br>What hand its passive keys shall press.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through wish, resolve, and act, our will<br>Is moved by undreamed forces still;<br>And no man measures in advance<br>His strength with untried circumstance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As streams take hue from shade and sun,<br>As runs the life the song must run;<br>But, glad or sad, to His good end<br>God grant the varying notes may tend!</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=420605" data-title="Overruled de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="The threads our hands in blindness spin No self-determined plan weaves in; The shuttle of the unseen powers Works out a pattern not as ours. Ah! small the choice of him who sings What sound shall leave the smitten strings; Fate holds and guides t..."></div> </div> </div>

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