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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420684" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dream Of Pio Nono</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">IT chanced that while the pious troops of France<br>Fought in the crusade Pio Nono preached,<br>What time the holy Bourbons stayed his hands<br>(The Hur and Aaron meet for such a Moses),<br>Stretched forth from Naples towards rebellious Rome<br>To bless the ministry of Oudinot,<br>And sanctify his iron homilies<br>And sharp persuasions of the bayonet,<br>That the great pontiff fell asleep, and dreamed.<br>He stood by Lake Tiberias, in the sun<br>Of the bright Orient; and beheld the lame,.<br>The sick, and blind, kneel at the Master's feet,<br>And rise up whole. And, sweetly over all,<br>Dropping the ladder of their hymn of praise<br>From heaven to earth, in silver rounds of song,<br>He heard the blessed angels sing of peace,<br>Good-will to man, and glory to the Lord.<br>Then one, with feet unshod, and leathern face<br>Hardened and darkened by fierce summer suns<br>And hot winds of the desert, closer drew<br>His fisher's haick, and girded up his loins,<br>And spake, as one who had authority:<br>'Come thou with me.'<br>Lakeside and eastern sky<br>And the sweet song of angels passed away,<br>And, with a dream's alacrity of change,<br>The priest, and the swart fisher by his side,<br>Beheld the Eternal City lift its domes<br>And solemn fanes and monumental pomp<br>Above the waste Campagna. On the hills<br>The blaze of burning villas rose and fell,<br>And momently the mortar's iron throat<br>Roared from the trenches; and, within the walls,<br>Sharp crash of shells, low groans of human pain,<br>Shout, drum beat, and the clanging larum-bell,<br>And tramp of hosts, sent up a mingled sound,<br>Half wail and half defiance. As they passed<br>The gate of San Pancrazio, human blood<br>Flowed ankle-high about them, and dead men<br>Choked the long street with gashed and gory piles,—<br>A ghastly barricade of mangled flesh,<br>From which, at times, quivered a living hand,<br>And white lips moved and moaned. A father tore<br>His gray hairs, by the body of his son,<br>In frenzy; and his fair young daughter wept<br>On his old bosom. Suddenly a flash<br>Clove the thick sulphurous air, and man and maid<br>Sank, crushed and mangled by the shattering shell.<br>Then spake the Galilean: 'Thou hast seen<br>The blessed Master and His works of love;<br>Look now on thine! Hear'st thou the angels sing<br>Above this open hell? Thou God's high-priest!<br>Thou the Vicegerent of the Prince of Peace!<br>Thou the successor of His chosen ones!<br>I, Peter, fisherman of Galilee,<br>In the dear Master's name, and for the love<br>Of His true Church, proclaim thee Antichrist,<br>Alien and separate from His holy faith,<br>Wide as the difference between death and life,<br>The hate of man and the great love of God!<br>Hence, and repent!'<br>Thereat the pontiff woke,<br>Trembling, and muttering o'er his fearful dream.<br>'What means he?' cried the Bourbon. 'Nothing more<br>Than that your majesty hath all too well<br>Catered for your poor guests, and that, in sooth,<br>The Holy Father's supper troubleth him,'<br>Said Cardinal Antonelli, with a smile.</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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What time the holy Bourbons stayed his hands
(The Hur and Aaron meet for such a Moses),
Stretched forth from Naples towards rebellious Rome
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