<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447606" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Pilgrim</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Vain folly of another age,<br>This wandering over earth,<br>To find the peace by some dark sin<br>Banish'd our household hearth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On Lebanon the dark green pines<br>Wave over sacred ground,<br>And Carmel's consecrated rose<br>Springs from a hallow'd mound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Glorious the truth they testify,<br>And blessed is their name;<br>But even in such a sacred spot, <br>Are sin and woe the same.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O pilgrim! with each toilsome step, <br>Vain every weary day;<br>There is no charm in soil or shrine,<br>To wash thy guilt away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Return, with prayer and tear, return<br>To those who weep at home;<br>To dry their tears will more avail,<br>Than o'er a world to roam.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's hope for one who leaves with shame,<br>The guilt that lured before;<br>Remember, He who said, 'Repent,'<br>Said also, 'Sin no more.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Return, and in thy daily round<br>Of duty and of love,<br>Thou best wilt find that patient faith<br>Which lifts the soul above.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In ev'ry innocent prayer, each child <br>Lisps at his father's knee: -<br>If thine has been to teach that prayer,<br>There will be hope for thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is a small white church, that stands<br>Beside thy father's grave, <br>There kneel and pour those earnest prayers,<br>That sanctify and save.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Around thee draw thine own home-ties,<br>And, with a chasten'd mind,<br>In meek well-doing seek that peace,<br>No wandering will find. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In charity and penitence,<br>Thy sin will be forgiven: -<br>Pilgrim, the heart is the true shrine,<br>Whence prayers ascend to Heaven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Letitia+Elizabeth+Landon">Letitia Elizabeth Landon</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=447606" data-title="The Pilgrim de Letitia Elizabeth Landon" data-description="Vain folly of another age, This wandering over earth, To find the peace by some dark sin Banish'd our household hearth. On Lebanon the dark green pines Wave over sacred ground, And Carmel's consecrated rose Springs from a hallow'd mound. Gloriou..."></div> </div> </div>

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