<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428585" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>This Tattered Catechism</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THIS tattered catechism weaves a spell,<br>Invoking from the Long Ago a child<br>Who deemed her fledgling soul so sin-defiled<br>She practised with a candle-flame at hell,<br>Burning small fingers, that would still rebel<br>And flinch from fire. Forsooth not all beguiled<br>By hymn and sermon, when her mother smiled,<br>That smile was fashioning an infidel.<br>'If I'm in hell,' the baby logic ran,<br>'Mother will hear me cry and come for me.<br>If God says no —I don't believe He can<br>Say no to mother.' Then at that dear knee<br>She knelt demure, a little Puritan<br>Whose faith in love had wrecked theology.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katharine+Lee+Bates">Katharine Lee Bates</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=428585" data-title="This Tattered Catechism de Katharine Lee Bates" data-description="THIS tattered catechism weaves a spell, Invoking from the Long Ago a child Who deemed her fledgling soul so sin-defiled She practised with a candle-flame at hell, Burning small fingers, that would still rebel And flinch from fire. Forsooth not all..."></div> </div> </div>

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