<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461397" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Palm Branch Of Palestine</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Palm branch of Palestine, oh tell me,<br>In that far distant home-land fair,<br>Wast rooted in the mountain gravel<br>Or sprung from some vale garden rare?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once o'er the Jordan's silver billows<br>Fond kissed with thee the Eastern sun?<br>Have the grim gales 'neath starry heavens<br>Swept over thee from Lebanon?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And was a trembling prayer soft whispered,<br>A father's song sung over thee--<br>When from the parent stem dis-severed<br>By some poor aborigine?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And is the palm tree ever standing,<br>Amid the fierce glare beating down,<br>The pilgrim in the desert luring<br>To shelter 'neath her shadow crown?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps the leaves ancestral shiver<br>In unappeased parting pain,<br>The branch conceals a homesick longing<br>For desert wilderness again?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Was it a pilgrim who first brought thee<br>To the cold North, with pious hand?<br>Who mused upon his home in sadness,<br>And dost thou bear his tear's hot brand?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Was it Jehovah's favored warrior,<br>His gleaming head transfigured bright,<br>For God and man true-sworn, devoted<br>Unto the victory of light?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before the wonder-working image<br>Thou stand'st as heaven's defence divine,<br>O branch from out that holy country,<br>The sanctuary's shield and sign!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It darkens, golden lamp light splendors<br>Enveil the cross, the sacred shrine--<br>The peace of God is wafted o'er us<br>From thee, oh branch of Palestine!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mikhail+Yuryevich+Lermontov">Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov</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=461397" data-title="The Palm Branch Of Palestine de Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov" data-description="Palm branch of Palestine, oh tell me, In that far distant home-land fair, Wast rooted in the mountain gravel Or sprung from some vale garden rare? Once o'er the Jordan's silver billows Fond kissed with thee the Eastern sun? Have the grim gales 'n..."></div> </div> </div>

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