<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421604" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Foolish Virgins</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When descending from the sky<br>The Bridegroom shall appear;<br>And the solemn midnight cry,<br>Shall call professors near:<br>How the sound our hearts will damp!<br>How will shame o'erspread each face!<br>If we only have a lamp,<br>Without the oil of grace. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Foolish virgins then will wake<br>And seek for a supply;<br>But in vain the pains they take<br>To borrow or to buy:<br>Then with those they now despise,<br>Earnestly they'll wish to share;<br>But the best, among the wise,<br>Will have no oil to spare. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wise are they, and truly blest,<br>Who then shall ready be<br>But despair will seize the rest,<br>And dreadful misery:<br>Once, they'll cry, we scorned to doubt,<br>Though in lies our trust we put;<br>Now our lamp of hope is out,<br>The door of mercy shut. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If they then presume to plead,<br>Lord open to us now;<br>We on earth have heard and prayed,<br>And with thy saints did bow:<br>He will answer from his throne,<br>Though you with my people mixed,<br>Yet to me you ne'er were known,<br>Depart, your doom is fixed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O that none who worship here<br>May hear that word, Depart!<br>Lord impress a godly fear<br>On each professor's heart:<br>Help us, Lord, to search the camp,<br>Let us not ourselves beguile;<br>Trusting to a dying lamp<br>Without a stock of oil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Newton">John Newton</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=421604" data-title="The Foolish Virgins de John Newton" data-description="When descending from the sky The Bridegroom shall appear; And the solemn midnight cry, Shall call professors near: How the sound our hearts will damp! How will shame o'erspread each face! If we only have a lamp, Without the oil of grace. Foolish..."></div> </div> </div>

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