<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428721" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Soldier</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lest the young soldiers be strange in heaven,<br>God bids the old soldier they all adored<br>Come to Him and wait for them, clean, new-shriven,<br>A happy doorkeeper in the House of the Lord.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lest it abash them, the strange new splendour,<br>Lest it affright them, the new robes clean;<br>Here's an old face, now, long-tried, and tender,<br>A word and a hand-clasp as they troop in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'My boys,' he greets them: and heaven is homely,<br>He their great captain in days gone o'er;<br>Dear is the friend's face, honest and comely,<br>Waiting to welcome them by the strange door.</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=428721" data-title="The Old Soldier de Katharine Tynan" data-description="Lest the young soldiers be strange in heaven, God bids the old soldier they all adored Come to Him and wait for them, clean, new-shriven, A happy doorkeeper in the House of the Lord. Lest it abash them, the strange new splendour, Lest it affright..."></div> </div> </div>

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