<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455776" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In the South Pacific</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A vision of a savage land,<br>A glimpse of cloud-ringed seas;<br>A moonlit deck, a murderous hand;<br>No more, no more of these!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No more! how heals the tender flesh,<br>Once torn by savage beast?<br>The wound, re-opening, bleeds afresh,<br>Each season at the least!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O day, for dawn of thee how prayed<br>The spirit, sore distressed;<br>Thy latest beams, upslanting, made<br>A pathway for the blest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And robes, new-donned, of the redeemed,<br>Gleamed white past grief's dark pall:<br>So this, a day of death which seemed,<br>A birthday let us call.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Remembering, such day as this,<br>A soul from flesh was shriven,<br>By death, God's messenger of bliss;<br>A spirit entered Heaven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy dying head no loving breast<br>Upheld, O early slain;<br>But soon, mid welcoming saints, 'twas prest<br>Where God's own Child has lain!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though none at death broke Bread for thee,<br>Or poured the Sacred Wine;<br>Thou, nourished at His Board, dost see<br>The Substance of the Sign.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We mourned thee! Heaven's new born, and rich<br>Past all our prayers could claim,<br>Secure in blessedness, of which<br>We have not learnt the name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Hannay+Foott">Mary Hannay Foott</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=455776" data-title="In the South Pacific de Mary Hannay Foott" data-description="A vision of a savage land, A glimpse of cloud-ringed seas; A moonlit deck, a murderous hand; No more, no more of these! No more! how heals the tender flesh, Once torn by savage beast? The wound, re-opening, bleeds afresh, Each season at the least..."></div> </div> </div>

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