<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=454892" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lamp of Poor Souls</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">[In many English churches before the Reformation there was kept a little lamp continually burning, called the Lamp of Poor Souls. People were reminded thereby to pray for the souls of those dead whose kinsfolk were too poor to pay for prayers and masses.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Above my head the shields are stained with rust,<br>The wind has taken his spoil, the moth his part;<br>Dust of dead men beneath my knees, and dust,<br>Lord, in my heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lay Thou the hand of faith upon my fears;<br>The priest has prayed, the silver bell has rung,<br>But not for him. O unforgotten tears,<br>He was so young!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shine, little lamp, nor let thy light grow dim.<br>Into what vast, dread dreams, what lonely lands,<br>Into what griefs hath death delivered him,<br>Far from my hands?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cradled is he, with half his prayers forgot.<br>I cannot learn the level way he goes.<br>He whom the harvest hath remembered not<br>Sleeps with the rose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shine, little lamp, fed with sweet oil of prayers.<br>Shine, little lamp, as God's own eyes may shine,<br>When He treads softly down His starry stairs<br>And whispers, &quot;Thou art Mine.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shine, little lamp, for love hath fed thy gleam.<br>Sleep, little soul, by God's own hands set free.<br>Cling to His arms and sleep, and sleeping, dream,<br>And dreaming, look for me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marjorie+Lowry+Christie+Pickthall">Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall</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=454892" data-title="The Lamp of Poor Souls de Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall" data-description="[In many English churches before the Reformation there was kept a little lamp continually burning, called the Lamp of Poor Souls. People were reminded thereby to pray for the souls of those dead whose kinsfolk were too poor to pay for prayers and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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