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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=468726" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Land Of The Living</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know of a land<br>Where hair does not grey, and where time’s rule is banned,<br>Where sun does not burn, and where wave does not ring,<br>Where autumn embraces the blossoming spring,<br>Where morning and evening unceasingly dance<br>In noon’s brightest glance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, wonderful land,<br>Where glass does not run full of tear-drops as sand,<br>Where nothing is wanting that’s worth holding dear,<br>Where that does not lack which so pained us back here!<br>With breast filled with longing we seek ever more<br>Your sweet-smiling shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, long-promised land!<br>We greet you in morning hour’s mirror-clear strand,<br>When perfect your shadow the child may espy<br>And dreams that in green woods is where you must lie,<br>Where too it can share with the rushes and flowers<br>Its smile and its hours.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, transient dream<br>Of island eternal in time’s rushing stream!<br>Of joy’s sacred temple in life’s vale of tears,<br>Of life half-divine in this hall’s mortal years!<br>The land of the living with you melts away<br>From those made of clay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, hope-dashing dream!<br>You glittering bubble on time’s rushing stream!<br>In vain would the poet, with voice and with pen,<br>From bright-gleaming shadows create you again;<br>Where shadow comes closest, the small will all weep<br>Who on it gaze deep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, spell-binding dream<br>Of pearl that’s eternal in time’s rushing stream!<br>You fool those poor persons who all seek in vain<br>In image and art what the heart would retain,<br>And make them call lasting what just disappears<br>Like days, months and years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, spirit of love!<br>Your hand let me kiss, reaching down from above<br>From heaven’s fair skies to this earth’s murky hold<br>And touching our eyes with its fingers of gold,<br>So blue-tinged there climbs behind surf-roaring strand<br>The wonderful land!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, heavenly name,<br>Whose sacred embrace does our nature inflame,<br>So spirit can mingle with dust without grief<br>And bring back to life every dead withered leaf!<br>Oh, deep in my clay let me fall on my knee<br>So God may see me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, faith beyond bliss,<br>Whose high-vaulted bridge spans the gaping abyss<br>When drifting ice threatens in surf-roaring strand<br>From poor mortal dwelling to far promised land!<br>Come farther down to me, you high-honoured guest!<br>That pleases you best.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, hope fleet of wing!<br>Oh, brother reborn through divine christening!<br>For all journeys made to the land o’er the sea,<br>Good tidings and comfort you’ve lavished on me,<br>May I ever thank you, so joy is in store<br>When hope is no more!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, love perfect love!<br>Quiet source of fierce torrents that mightily move!<br>He calls you his father who ransoms our plight<br>Your spirit all soul’s vital force does ignite;<br>Your kingdom is there where man death does defy;<br>May us it be nigh!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our father sublime!<br>You willingly reign in earth’s temple of grime,<br>Who builds up the spirit in Jesu’s sweet name,<br>In human embrace with an altar aflame,<br>With heaven-bright dwelling of faith dearly won,<br>For you and your son.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, Christian faith sweet!<br>You grant every heart what the world cannot greet;<br>What barely we glimpse while our eye is still blue,<br>Is living within us, we know this is true;<br>Both heaven and earth are my land, life confides<br>Where love e’er resides.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Nicolaj+Frederik+Severin+Grundtvig">Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig</a><div class=q>
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Where hair does not grey, and where time’s rule is banned,
Where sun does not burn, and where wave does not ring,
Where autumn embraces the blossoming spring,
Where morning and evening unceasingly dance
In noon’s brightest gla..."></div>
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