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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420646" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Answer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spare me, dread angel of reproof,<br>And let the sunshine weave to-day<br>Its gold-threads in the warp and woof<br>Of life so poor and gray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spare me awhile; the flesh is weak.<br>These lingering feet, that fain would stray<br>Among the flowers, shall some day seek<br>The strait and narrow way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take off thy ever-watchful eye,<br>The awe of thy rebuking frown;<br>The dullest slave at times must sigh<br>To fling his burdens down;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To drop his galley's straining oar,<br>And press, in summer warmth and calm,<br>The lap of some enchanted shore<br>Of blossom and of balm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grudge not my life its hour of bloom,<br>My heart its taste of long desire;<br>This day be mine: be those to come<br>As duty shall require.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The deep voice answered to my own,<br>Smiting my selfish prayers away;<br>'To-morrow is with God alone,<br>And man hath but to-day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Say not, thy fond, vain heart within,<br>The Father's arm shall still be wide,<br>When from these pleasant ways of sin<br>Thou turn'st at eventide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">''Cast thyself down,' the tempter saith,<br>'And angels shall thy feet upbear.'<br>He bids thee make a lie of faith,<br>And blasphemy of prayer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Though God be good and free be heaven,<br>No force divine can love compel;<br>And, though the song of sins forgiven<br>May sound through lowest hell,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The sweet persuasion of His voice<br>Respects thy sanctity of will.<br>He giveth day: thou hast thy choice<br>To walk in darkness still;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'As one who, turning from the light,<br>Watches his own gray shadow fall,<br>Doubting, upon his path of night,<br>If there be day at all!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'No word of doom may shut thee out,<br>No wind of wrath may downward whirl,<br>No swords of fire keep watch about<br>The open gates of pearl;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'A tenderer light than moon or sun,<br>Than song of earth a sweeter hymn,<br>May shine and sound forever on,<br>And thou be deaf and dim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Forever round the Mercy-seat<br>The guiding lights of Love shall burn;<br>But what if, habit-bound, thy feet<br>Shall lack the will to turn?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What if thine eye refuse to see,<br>Thine ear of Heaven's free welcome fail,<br>And thou a willing captive be,<br>Thyself thy own dark jail?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Oh, doom beyond the saddest guess,<br>As the long years of God unroll,<br>To make thy dreary selfishness<br>The prison of a soul!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'To doubt the love that fain would break<br>The fetters from thy self-bound limb;<br>And dream that God can thee forsake<br>As thou forsakest Him!'</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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And let the sunshine weave to-day
Its gold-threads in the warp and woof
Of life so poor and gray.

Spare me awhile; the flesh is weak.
These lingering feet, that fain would stray
Among the flowers, shall some day ..."></div>
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