<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420731" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Library</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Let there be light!' God spake of old,<br>And over chaos dark and cold,<br>And through the dead and formless frame<br>Of nature, life and order came.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Faint was the light at first that shone<br>On giant fern and mastodon,<br>On half-formed plant and beast of prey,<br>And man as rude and wild as they.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Age after age, like waves, o'erran<br>The earth, uplifting brute and man;<br>And mind, at length, in symbols dark<br>Its meanings traced on stone and bark.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll,<br>On plastic clay and leathern scroll,<br>Man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed,<br>And to! the Press was found at last!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then dead souls woke; the thoughts of men<br>Whose bones were dust revived again;<br>The cloister's silence found a tongue,<br>Old prophets spake, old poets sung.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And here, to-day, the dead look down,<br>The kings of mind again we crown;<br>We hear the voices lost so long,<br>The sage's word, the sibyl's song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here Greek and Roman find themselves<br>Alive along these crowded shelves;<br>And Shakespeare treads again his stage,<br>And Chaucer paints anew his age.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As if some Pantheon's marbles broke<br>Their stony trance, and lived and spoke,<br>Life thrills along the alcoved hall,<br>The lords of thought await our call!</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=420731" data-title="The Library de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="'Let there be light!' God spake of old, And over chaos dark and cold, And through the dead and formless frame Of nature, life and order came. Faint was the light at first that shone On giant fern and mastodon, On half-formed plant and beast of pr..."></div> </div> </div>

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