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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457119" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Charity : A Paraphrase On 1 Cor. Chap. 13</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did sweeter Sounds adorn my flowing Tongue, <br>Than ever Man pronounc'd, or Angel sung: <br>Had I all Knowledge, Human and Divine, <br>That Thought can reach, or Science can define; <br>And had I Pow'r to give that Knowledge Birth, <br>In all the Speeches of the babbling Earth: <br>Did Shadrach's Zeal my glowing Breast inspire, <br>To weary Tortures, and rejoice in Fire: <br>Or had I Faith like That which Israel saw, <br>When Moses gave them Miracles, and Law: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, gracious Charity, indulgent Guest, <br>Were not Thy Pow'r exerted in my Breast; <br>Those Speeches would send up unheeded Pray'r: <br>That Scorn of Life would be but wild Despair: <br>A Tymbal's Sound were better than my Voice: <br>My Faith were Form: my Eloquence were Noise. <br>Charity, decent, modest, easy, kind, <br>Softens the high, and rears the abject Mind; <br>Knows with just Reins, and gentle Hand to guide, <br>Betwixt vile Shame, and arbitrary Pride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not soon provok'd, She easily forgives; <br>And much She suffers, as She much believes. <br>Soft Peace She brings where-ever She arrives: <br>She builds our Quiet, as She forms our Lives; <br>Lays the rough Paths of peevish Nature ev'n; <br>And opens in each Heart a little Heav'n. <br>Each other Gift, which GOD on Man bestows, <br>It's proper Bounds, and due Restriction knows; <br>To one fixt Purpose dedicates it's Pow'r; <br>And finishing it's Act, exists no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus, in Obedience to what Heav'n decrees, <br>Knowledge shall fail, and Prophecy shall cease: <br>But lasting Charity's more ample Sway, <br>Nor bound by Time, nor subject to Decay, <br>In happy Triumph shall for ever live, <br>And endless Good diffuse, and endless Praise receive. <br>As thro' the Artist's intervening Glass, <br>Our Eye observes the distant Planets pass; <br>A little we discover; but allow, <br>That more remains unseen, than Art can show:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So whilst our Mind it's Knowledge wou'd improve; <br>(It's feeble Eye intent on Things above) <br>High as We may, We lift our Reason up, <br>By Faith directed, and confirm'd by Hope: <br>Yet are We able only to survey <br>Dawnings of Beams, and Promises of Day. <br>Heav'n's fuller Effluence mocks our dazl'd Sight; <br>Too great it's Swiftness, and too strong it's Light. <br>But soon the mediate Clouds shall be dispell'd; <br>The Sun shall soon be Face to Face beheld,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In all His Robes, with all His Glory on, <br>Seated sublime on His Meridian Throne. <br>Then constant Faith, and holy Hope shall dye, <br>One lost in Certainty, and One in Joy: <br>Whilst Thou, more happy Pow'r, fair Charity, <br>Triumphant Sister, greatest of the Three, <br>Thy Office, and Thy Nature still the same, <br>Lasting thy Lamp, and unconsum'd thy Flame, <br>Shalt still survive - <br>Shalt stand before the Host of Heav'n confest,<br>For ever blessing, and for ever bless'd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Prior">Matthew Prior</a><div class=q>
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