<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=464707" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Annunciation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The lord appeared in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush and behold, the bush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed.'-EXODOUS iii.2.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>When to your virgin heart, unstirred, ungiven,<br>Upon the quiet mountainside untrod,<br>The sudden naked fire came down from heaven,<br>Burning you with the very breath of God,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Was the sun lost? Were all the sweet stars dim<br>While God raised round your head those walls of light?<br>Were you locked dumbly, terribly with Him,<br>Within that burning temple day and night?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What was it to have God there like a bird-<br>God like a great, gold flower upon your breast-<br>While He spake things that only one man heard,<br>Face down before that glory manifest?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When that strange flame went up the mountain side,<br>Were your forsaken lips so burned with gold<br>That the creatures of the wild stood off and cried,<br>And in your breast no blossom dared unfold?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did you call back the startled birds to build,<br>And put forth all your simple buds again,<br>Forgetting how your branches once were filled,<br>In sweet embrace of passing sun and rain?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or were all other birds forbidden sing<br>After those great, gold plumes had made their nest?<br>Was, in its strange and awful blossoming,<br>That great, gold flower the last upon your breast?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Muriel+Stuart">Muriel Stuart</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=464707" data-title="Annunciation de Muriel Stuart" data-description="'The lord appeared in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush and behold, the bush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed.'-EXODOUS iii.2. When to your virgin heart, unstirred, ungiven, Upon the quiet mountainside untrod, The sudden n..."></div> </div> </div>

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