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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420766" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Prayer Of Agassiz</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the isle of Penikese,<br>Ringed about by sapphire seas,<br>Fanned by breezes salt and cool,<br>Stood the Master with his school.<br>Over sails that not in vain<br>Wooed the west-wind's steady strain,<br>Line of coast that low and far<br>Stretched its undulating bar,<br>Wings aslant along the rim<br>Of the waves they stooped to skim,<br>Rock and isle and glistening bay,<br>Fell the beautiful white day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said the Master to the youth<br>'We have come in search of truth,<br>Trying with uncertain key<br>Door by door of mystery;<br>We are reaching, through His laws,<br>To the garment-hem of Cause,<br>Him, the endless, unbegun,<br>The Unnamable, the One<br>Light of all our light the Source,<br>Life of life, and Force of force.<br>As with fingers of the blind,<br>We are groping here to find<br>What the hieroglyphics mean<br>Of the Unseen in the seen,<br>What the Thought which underlies<br>Nature's masking and disguise,<br>What it is that hides beneath<br>Blight and bloom and birth and death.<br>By past efforts unavailing,<br>Doubt and error, loss and failing,<br>Of our weakness made aware,<br>On the threshold of our task<br>Let us light and guidance ask,<br>Let us pause in silent prayer!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the Master in his place<br>Bowed his head a little space,<br>And the leaves by soft airs stirred,<br>Lapse of wave and cry of bird,<br>Left the solemn hush unbroken<br>Of that wordless prayer unspoken,<br>While its wish, on earth unsaid,<br>Rose to heaven interpreted.<br>As, in life's best hours, we hear<br>By the spirit's finer ear<br>His low voice within us, thus<br>The All-Father heareth us;<br>And His holy ear we pain<br>With our noisy words and vain.<br>Not for Him our violence<br>Storming at the gates of sense,<br>His the primal language, His<br>The eternal silences!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even the careless heart was moved,<br>And the doubting gave assent,<br>With a gesture reverent,<br>To the Master well-beloved.<br>As thin mists are glorified<br>By the light they cannot hide,<br>All who gazed upon him saw,<br>Through its veil of tender awe,<br>How his face was still uplit<br>By the old sweet look of it.<br>Hopeful, trustful, full of cheer,<br>And the love that casts out fear.<br>Who the secret may declare<br>Of that brief, unuttered prayer?<br>Did the shade before him come<br>Of th' inevitable doom,<br>Of the end of earth so near,<br>And Eternity's new year?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the lap of sheltering seas<br>Rests the isle of Penikese;<br>But the lord of the domain<br>Comes not to his own again<br>Where the eyes that follow fail,<br>On a vaster sea his sail<br>Drifts beyond our beck and hail.<br>Other lips within its bound<br>Shall the laws of life expound;<br>Other eyes from rock and shell<br>Read the world's old riddles well<br>But when breezes light and bland<br>Blow from Summer's blossomed land,<br>When the air is glad with wings,<br>And the blithe song-sparrow sings,<br>Many an eye with his still face<br>Shall the living ones displace,<br>Many an ear the word shall seek<br>He alone could fitly speak.<br>And one name forevermore<br>Shall be uttered o'er and o'er<br>By the waves that kiss the shore,<br>By the curlew's whistle sent<br>Down the cool, sea-scented air;<br>In all voices known to her,<br>Nature owns her worshipper,<br>Half in triumph, half lament.<br>Thither Love shall tearful turn,<br>Friendship pause uncovered there,<br>And the wisest reverence learn<br>From the Master's silent prayer.</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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Ringed about by sapphire seas,
Fanned by breezes salt and cool,
Stood the Master with his school.
Over sails that not in vain
Wooed the west-wind's steady strain,
Line of coast that low and far
Stretched its undulating bar..."></div>
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