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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421214" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>St. Matthew</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye hermits blest, ye holy maids,<br> The nearest Heaven on earth,<br> Who talk with God in shadowy glades,<br> Free from rude care and mirth;<br> To whom some viewless teacher brings<br> The secret lore of rural things,<br> The moral of each fleeting cloud and gale,<br>The whispers from above, that haunt the twilight vale:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Say, when in pity ye have gazed<br> On the wreathed smoke afar,<br> That o'er some town, like mist upraised,<br> Hung hiding sun and star,<br> Then as ye turned your weary eye<br> To the green earth and open sky,<br> Were ye not fain to doubt how Faith could dwell<br>Amid that dreary glare, in this world's citadel?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> But Love's a flower that will not die<br> For lack of leafy screen,<br> And Christian Hope can cheer the eye<br> That ne'er saw vernal green;<br> Then be ye sure that Love can bless<br> E'en in this crowded loneliness,<br> Where ever-moving myriads seem to say,<br>Go--thou art naught to us, nor we to thee--away!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> There are in this loud stunning tide<br> Of human care and crime,<br> With whom the melodies abide<br> Of th' everlasting chime;<br> Who carry music in their heart<br> Through dusky lane and wrangling mart,<br> Plying their daily task with busier feet,<br>Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> How sweet to them, in such brief rest<br> As thronging cares afford,<br> In thought to wander, fancy-blest,<br> To where their gracious Lord,<br> In vain, to win proud Pharisees,<br> Spake, and was heard by fell disease -<br> But not in vain, beside yon breezy lake,<br>Bade the meek Publican his gainful seat forsake:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> At once he rose, and left his gold;<br> His treasure and his heart<br> Transferred, where he shall safe behold<br> Earth and her idols part;<br> While he beside his endless store<br> Shall sit, and floods unceasing pour<br> Of Christ's true riches o'er all time and space,<br>First angel of His Church, first steward of His Grace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Nor can ye not delight to think<br> Where He vouchsafed to eat,<br> How the Most Holy did not shrink<br> From touch of sinner's meat;<br> What worldly hearts and hearts impure<br> Went with Him through the rich man's door,<br> That we might learn of Him lost souls to love,<br>And view His least and worst with hope to meet above.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> These gracious lines shed Gospel light<br> On Mammon's gloomiest cells,<br> As on some city's cheerless night<br> The tide of sunrise swells,<br> Till tower, and dome, and bridge-way proud<br> Are mantled with a golden cloud,<br> And to wise hearts this certain hope us given;<br>&quot;No mist that man may raise, shall hide the eye of Heaven.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And oh! if e'en on Babel shine<br> Such gleams of Paradise,<br> Should not their peace be peace divine,<br> Who day by day arise<br> To look on clearer heavens, and scan<br> The work of God untouch'd by man?<br> Shame on us, who about us Babel bear,<br>And live in Paradise, as if God was not there!</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>
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 The nearest Heaven on earth,
 Who talk with God in shadowy glades,
 Free from rude care and mirth;
 To whom some viewless teacher brings
 The secret lore of rural things,
 The moral of each fleeting cloud and gale..."></div>
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