<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428734" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Temple</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHAT of Louvain and of Rheims<br>Made for God by man? What then? <br>Here be temples more than man's<br>Wrought by God for His own men. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Scattered in the rain and frost, <br>Marred of beauty, there they be, <br>Temples of the Holy Ghost, <br>Broken, ruined piteously. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Bodies all so finely wrought, <br>Cunning deftness shaped them well; <br>These, God's ultimate, loving thought<br>For His Spirit's citadel. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Beautiful from head to foot, <br>Young, dear darlings all unflawed<br>For their mother's kiss. What brute<br>Dares deface the image of God? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Oh, the Temple's down! all marred<br>Gay and golden boys must lie: <br>Bitter-sweet as spikenard<br>Is the old name we called them by. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Hush! God's Temple in its fall<br>Breaks to set the spirit free<br>From the golden cage and thrall. <br>Into heaven-winged liberty. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>From the cage the bird is flown, <br>Sings so high above our sphere. <br>Hush,--be never a sigh or moan: <br>The fledged bird flies without fear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>All our loves are gathered in, <br>Every gay and golden lad; <br>On new raiment, white and clean, <br>They behold God and are glad.</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=428734" data-title="The Temple de Katharine Tynan" data-description="WHAT of Louvain and of Rheims Made for God by man? What then? Here be temples more than man's Wrought by God for His own men. Scattered in the rain and frost, Marred of beauty, there they be, Temples of the Holy Ghost, Broken, ruined piteou..."></div> </div> </div>

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