<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=456511" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Revolutions</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before man parted for this earthly strand,<br>While yet upon the verge of heaven he stood,<br>God put a heap of letters in his hand,<br>And bade him make with them what word he could.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And man has turn'd them many times; made Greece, <br>Rome, England, France;--yes, nor in vain essay'd<br>Way after way, changes that never cease!<br>The letters have combined, something was made.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But ah! an inextinguishable sense<br>Haunts him that he has not made what he should; <br>That he has still, though old, to recommence,<br>Since he has not yet found the word God would.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And empire after empire, at their height<br>Of sway, have felt this boding sense come on;<br>Have felt their huge frames not constructed right, <br>And droop'd, and slowly died upon their throne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One day, thou say'st, there will at last appear<br>The word, the order, which God meant should be.<br>--Ah! we shall know _that_ well when it comes near;<br>The band will quit man's heart, he will breathe free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Arnold">Matthew Arnold</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=456511" data-title="Revolutions de Matthew Arnold" data-description="Before man parted for this earthly strand, While yet upon the verge of heaven he stood, God put a heap of letters in his hand, And bade him make with them what word he could. And man has turn'd them many times; made Greece, Rome, England, France..."></div> </div> </div>

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