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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420677" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Cypress-Tree Of Ceylon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THEY sat in silent watchfulness<br>The sacred cypress-tree about,<br>And, from beneath old wrinkled brows,<br>Their failing eyes looked out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gray Age and Sickness waiting there<br>Through weary night and lingering day,--<br>Grim as the idols at their side,<br>And motionless as they.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unheeded in the boughs above<br>The song of Ceylon's birds was sweet;<br>Unseen of them the island flowers<br>Bloomed brightly at their feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O'er them the tropic night-storm swept,<br>The thunder crashed on rock and hill;<br>The cloud-fire on their eyeballs blazed,<br>Yet there they waited still!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What was the world without to them?<br>The Moslem's sunset-call, the dance<br>Of Ceylon's maids, the passing gleam<br>Of battle-flag and lance?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They waited for that falling leaf<br>Of which the wandering Jogees sing:<br>Which lends once more to wintry age<br>The greenness of its spring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, if these poor and blinded ones<br>In trustful patience wait to feel<br>O'er torpid pulse and failing limb<br>A youthful freshness steal;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall we, who sit beneath that Tree<br>Whose healing leaves of life are shed,<br>In answer to the breath of prayer,<br>Upon the waiting head;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not to restore our failing forms,<br>And build the spirit's broken shrine,<br>But on the fainting soul to shed<br>A light and life divine--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall we grow weary in our watch,<br>And murmur at the long delay?<br>Impatient of our Father's time<br>And His appointed way?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or shall the stir of outward things<br>Allure and claim the Christian's eye,<br>When on the heathen watcher's ear<br>Their powerless murmurs die?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! a deeper test of faith<br>Than prison cell or martyr's stake,<br>The self-abasing watchfulness<br>Of silent prayer may make.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We gird us bravely to rebuke<br>Our erring brother in the wrong,--<br>And in the ear of Pride and Power<br>Our warning voice is strong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Easier to smite with Peter's sword<br>Than 'watch one hour' in humbling prayer.<br>Life's 'great things,' like the Syrian lord,<br>Our hearts can do and dare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But oh! we shrink from Jordan's side,<br>From waters which alone can save;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And murmur for Abana's banks<br>And Pharpar's brighter wave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Thou, who in the garden's shade<br>Didst wake Thy weary ones again,<br>Who slumbered at that fearful hour<br>Forgetful of Thy pain;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bend o'er us now, as over them,<br>And set our sleep-bound spirits free,<br>Nor leave us slumbering in the watch<br>Our souls should keep with 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>
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The sacred cypress-tree about,
And, from beneath old wrinkled brows,
Their failing eyes looked out.

Gray Age and Sickness waiting there
Through weary night and lingering day,--
Grim as the idols at their side,
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