<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428945" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To God the Father</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To the little, pitiful God I make my prayer,<br>The God with the long grey beard<br>And flowing robe fastened with a hempen girdle<br>Who sits nodding and muttering on the all-too-big throne<br> of Heaven.<br>What a long, long time, dear God, since you set the<br> stars in their places,<br>Girded the earth with the sea, and invented the day and<br> night.<br>And longer the time since you looked through the blue<br> window of Heaven<br>To see your children at play in a garden....<br>Now we are all stronger than you and wiser and more<br> arrogant,<br>In swift procession we pass you by.<br>&quot;Who is that marionette nodding and muttering<br>On the all-too-big throne of Heaven?<br>Come down from your place, Grey Beard,<br>We have had enough of your play-acting!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> It is centuries since I believed in you,<br>But to-day my need of you has come back.<br>I want no rose-coloured future,<br>No books of learning, no protestations and denials--<br>I am sick of this ugly scramble,<br>I am tired of being pulled about--<br>O God, I want to sit on your knees<br>On the all-too-big throne of Heaven,<br>And fall asleep with my hands tangled in your grey<br> beard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katherine+Mansfield">Katherine Mansfield</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=428945" data-title="To God the Father de Katherine Mansfield" data-description="To the little, pitiful God I make my prayer, The God with the long grey beard And flowing robe fastened with a hempen girdle Who sits nodding and muttering on the all-too-big throne of Heaven. What a long, long time, dear God, since you set the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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