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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420879" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>What The Voice Said</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">MADDENED by Earth's wrong and evil,<br>'Lord!' I cried in sudden ire,<br>'From Thy right hand, clothed with thunder,<br>Shake the bolted fire!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Love is lost, and Faith is dying;<br>With the brute the man is sold;<br>And the dropping blood of labor<br>Hardens into gold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Here the dying wail of Famine,<br>There the battle's groan of pain;<br>And, in silence, smooth-faced Mammon<br>Reaping men like grain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">''Where is God, that we should fear Him?'<br>Thus the earth-born Titans say<br>'God! if Thou art living, hear us!'<br>Thus the weak ones pray.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Thou, the patient Heaven upbraiding,'<br>Spake a solemn Voice within;<br>'Weary of our Lord's forbearance,<br>Art thou free from sin?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Fearless brow to Him uplifting,<br>Canst thou for His thunders call,<br>Knowing that to guilt's attraction<br>Evermore they fall?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Know'st thou not all germs of evil<br>In thy heart await their time?<br>Not thyself, but God's restraining,<br>Stays their growth of crime.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Couldst thou boast, O child of weakness!<br>O'er the sons of wrong and strife,<br>Were their strong temptations planted<br>In thy path of life?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Thou hast seen two streamlets gushing<br>From one fountain, clear and free,<br>But by widely varying channels<br>Searching for the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Glideth one through greenest valleys,<br>Kissing them with lips still sweet;<br>One, mad roaring down the mountains,<br>Stagnates at their feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Is it choice whereby the Parsee<br>Kneels before his mother's fire?<br>In his black tent did the Tartar<br>Choose his wandering sire?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'He alone, whose hand is bounding<br>Human power and human will,<br>Looking through each soul's surrounding,<br>Knows its good or ill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'For thyself, while wrong and sorrow<br>Make to thee their strong appeal,<br>Coward wert thou not to utter<br>What the heart must feel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Earnest words must needs be spoken<br>When the warm heart bleeds or burns<br>With its scorn of wrong, or pity<br>For the wronged, by turns.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But, by all thy nature's weakness,<br>Hidden faults and follies known,<br>Be thou, in rebuking evil,<br>Conscious of thine own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Not the less shall stern-eyed Duty<br>To thy lips her trumpet set,<br>But with harsher blasts shall mingle<br>Wailings of regret.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cease not, Voice of holy speaking,<br>Teacher sent of God, be near,<br>Whispering through the day's cool silence,<br>Let my spirit hear!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, when thoughts of evil-doers<br>Waken scorn, or hatred move,<br>Shall a mournful fellow-feeling<br>Temper all with love.</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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'Lord!' I cried in sudden ire,
'From Thy right hand, clothed with thunder,
Shake the bolted fire!

'Love is lost, and Faith is dying;
With the brute the man is sold;
And the dropping blood of labor
Hardens into ..."></div>
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