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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420687" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Eternal Goodness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Friends! with whom my feet have trod<br>The quiet aisles of prayer,<br>Glad witness to your zeal for God<br>And love of man I bear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I trace your lines of argument;<br>Your logic linked and strong<br>I weigh as one who dreads dissent,<br>And fears a doubt as wrong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But still my human hands are weak<br>To hold your iron creeds:<br>Against the words ye bid me speak<br>My heart within me pleads.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who fathoms the Eternal Thought?<br>Who talks of scheme and plan?<br>The Lord is God! He needeth not<br>The poor device of man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I walk with bare, hushed feet the ground<br>Ye tread with boldness shod;<br>I dare not fix with mete and bound<br>The love and power of God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye praise His justice; even such<br>His pitying love I deem:<br>Ye seek a king; I fain would touch<br>The robe that hath no seam.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye see the curse which overbroods<br>A world of pain and loss;<br>I hear our Lord's beatitudes<br>And prayer upon the cross.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">More than your schoolmen teach, within<br>Myself, alas! I know:<br>Too dark ye cannot paint the sin,<br>Too small the merit show.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I bow my forehead to the dust,<br>I veil mine eyes for shame,<br>And urge, in trembling self-distrust,<br>A prayer without a claim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see the wrong that round me lies,<br>I feel the guilt within;<br>I hear, with groan and travail-cries,<br>The world confess its sin.<br>Yet, in the maddening maze of things,<br>And tossed by storm and flood,<br>To one fixed trust my spirit clings;<br>I know that God is good!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not mine to look where cherubim<br>And seraphs may not see,<br>But nothing can be good in Him<br>Which evil is in me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wrong that pains my soul below<br>I dare not throne above,<br>I know not of His hate, - I know<br>His goodness and His love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I dimly guess from blessings known<br>Of greater out of sight,<br>And, with the chastened Psalmist, own<br>His judgments too are right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I long for household voices gone.<br>For vanished smiles I long,<br>But God hath led my dear ones on,<br>And He can do no wrong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know not what the future hath<br>Of marvel or surprise,<br>Assured alone that life and death<br>His mercy underlies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if my heart and flesh are weak<br>To bear an untried pain,<br>The bruised reed He will not break,<br>But strengthen and sustain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No offering of my own I have,<br>Nor works my faith to prove;<br>I can but give the gifts He gave,<br>And plead His love for love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so beside the Silent Sea<br>I wait the muffled oar;<br>No harm from Him can come to me<br>On ocean or on shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know not where His islands lift<br>Their fronded palms in air;<br>I only know I cannot drift<br>Beyond His love and care.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O brothers! if my faith is vain,<br>If hopes like these betray,<br>Pray for me that my feet may gain<br>The sure and safer way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Thou, O Lord! by whom are seen<br>Thy creatures as they be,<br>Forgive me if too close I lean<br>My human heart on 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 quiet aisles of prayer,
Glad witness to your zeal for God
And love of man I bear.

I trace your lines of argument;
Your logic linked and strong
I weigh as one who dreads dissent,
And fears a doubt as wron..."></div>
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