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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420791" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Shadow And The Light</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fourteen centuries fall away<br>Between us and the Afric saint,<br>And at his side we urge, to-day,<br>The immemorial quest and old complaint.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No outward sign to us is given,--<br>From sea or earth comes no reply;<br>Hushed as the warm Numidian heaven<br>He vainly questioned bends our frozen sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No victory comes of all our strife,--<br>From all we grasp the meaning slips;<br>The Sphinx sits at the gate of life,<br>With the old question on her awful lips.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In paths unknown we hear the feet<br>Of fear before, and guilt behind;<br>We pluck the wayside fruit, and eat<br>Ashes and dust beneath its golden rind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From age to age descends unchecked<br>The sad bequest of sire to son,<br>The body's taint, the mind's defect;<br>Through every web of life the dark threads run.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, why and whither? God knows all;<br>I only know that He is good,<br>And that whatever may befall<br>Or here or there, must be the best that could.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Between the dreadful cherubim<br>A Father's face I still discern,<br>As Moses looked of old on Him,<br>And saw His glory into goodness turn!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For He is merciful as just;<br>And so, by faith correcting sight,<br>I bow before His will, and trust<br>Howe'er they seem He doeth all things right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And dare to hope that Tie will make<br>The rugged smooth, the doubtful plain;<br>His mercy never quite forsake;<br>His healing visit every realm of pain;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That suffering is not His revenge<br>Upon His creatures weak and frail,<br>Sent on a pathway new and strange<br>With feet that wander and with eyes that fail;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That, o'er the crucible of pain,<br>Watches the tender eye of Love<br>The slow transmuting of the chain<br>Whose links are iron below to gold above!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah me! we doubt the shining skies,<br>Seen through our shadows of offence,<br>And drown with our poor childish cries<br>The cradle-hymn of kindly Providence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And still we love the evil cause,<br>And of the just effect complain<br>We tread upon life's broken laws,<br>And murmur at our self-inflicted pain;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We turn us from the light, and find<br>Our spectral shapes before us thrown,<br>As they who leave the sun behind<br>Walk in the shadows of themselves alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And scarce by will or strength of ours<br>We set our faces to the day;<br>Weak, wavering, blind, the Eternal Powers<br>Alone can turn us from ourselves away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our weakness is the strength of sin,<br>But love must needs be stronger far,<br>Outreaching all and gathering in<br>The erring spirit and the wandering star.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Voice grows with the growing years;<br>Earth, hushing down her bitter cry,<br>Looks upward from her graves, and hears,<br>'The Resurrection and the Life am I.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Love Divine!--whose constant beam<br>Shines on the eyes that will not see,<br>And waits to bless us, while we dream<br>Thou leavest us because we turn from thee!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All souls that struggle and aspire,<br>All hearts of prayer by thee are lit;<br>And, dim or clear, thy tongues of fire<br>On dusky tribes and twilight centuries sit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor bounds, nor clime, nor creed thou know'st,<br>Wide as our need thy favors fall;<br>The white wings of the Holy Ghost<br>Stoop, seen or unseen, o'er the heads of all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Beauty, old yet ever new!<br>Eternal Voice, and Inward Word,<br>The Logos of the Greek and Jew,<br>The old sphere-music which the Samian heard!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Truth, which the sage and prophet saw,<br>Long sought without, but found within,<br>The Law of Love beyond all law,<br>The Life o'erflooding mortal death and sin!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shine on us with the light which glowed<br>Upon the trance-bound shepherd's way.<br>Who saw the Darkness overflowed<br>And drowned by tides of everlasting Day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shine, light of God!--make broad thy scope<br>To all who sin and suffer; more<br>And better than we dare to hope<br>With Heaven's compassion make our longings poor!</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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Between us and the Afric saint,
And at his side we urge, to-day,
The immemorial quest and old complaint.

No outward sign to us is given,--
From sea or earth comes no reply;
Hushed as the warm Numidian heaven
He va..."></div>
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