<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421206" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>St. Andrew's Day</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When brothers part for manhood's race,<br> What gift may most endearing prove<br>To keep fond memory its her place,<br> And certify a brother's love?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis true, bright hours together told,<br> And blissful dreams in secret shared,<br>Serene or solemn, gay or bold,<br> Shall last in fancy unimpaired.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">E'en round the death-bed of the good<br> Such dear remembrances will hover,<br>And haunt us with no vexing mood<br> When all the cares of earth are over.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But yet our craving spirits feel,<br> We shall live on, though Fancy die,<br>And seek a surer pledge--a seal<br> Of love to last eternally.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who art thou, that wouldst grave thy name<br> Thus deeply in a brother's heart?<br>Look on this saint, and learn to frame<br> Thy love-charm with true Christian art.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">First seek thy Saviour out, and dwell<br> Beneath this shadow of His roof,<br>Till thou have scanned His features well,<br> And known Him for the Christ by proof;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such proof as they are sure to find<br> Who spend with Him their happy days,<br>Clean hands, and a self-ruling mind<br> Ever in tune for love and praise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, potent with the spell of Heaven,<br> Go, and thine erring brother gain,<br>Entice him home to be forgiven,<br> Till he, too, see his Saviour plain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or, if before thee in the race,<br> Urge him with thine advancing tread,<br>Till, like twin stars, with even pace,<br> Each lucid course be duly aped.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No fading frail memorial give<br> To soothe his soul when thou art gone,<br>But wreaths of hope for aye to live,<br> And thoughts of good together done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That so, before the judgment-seat,<br> Though changed and glorified each face,<br>Not unremembered ye may meet<br> For endless ages to embrace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Keble">John Keble</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=421206" data-title="St. Andrew's Day de John Keble" data-description="When brothers part for manhood's race, What gift may most endearing prove To keep fond memory its her place, And certify a brother's love? 'Tis true, bright hours together told, And blissful dreams in secret shared, Serene or solemn, gay or bo..."></div> </div> </div>

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