<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428629" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Distraction</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When swarms of small distractions harry<br>Devotion like the gnats that fly<br>Till prayers are cold and customary,<br>Not such as please Thee, Heaven-high.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I forget for all my striving<br>Thy presence holy and august,<br>Be Thou not angry, but forgiving<br>To her Thou madest from the dust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Say to Thyself: This mortal being,<br>So deaf, so blind, so prone to sin,<br>Has glimpses of Me without seeing<br>The places where the nails went in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Say: Through the crusts of earth, My creature<br>Perceives Me, hails Me Lord above;<br>Rumours of the lost innocence reach her,<br>With full assurance of My love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Say: Of all marvels I have fashioned<br>Is none more wonderful and new<br>As that this thing should go impassioned<br>For heights beyond her mortal view.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What though her mind should play and ponder<br>On small things meet for such as she!<br>O love! O loyalty! O wonder!<br>That in the darkness gropes for Me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katharine+Tynan">Katharine Tynan</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=428629" data-title="Distraction de Katharine Tynan" data-description="When swarms of small distractions harry Devotion like the gnats that fly Till prayers are cold and customary, Not such as please Thee, Heaven-high. When I forget for all my striving Thy presence holy and august, Be Thou not angry, but forgiving T..."></div> </div> </div>

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