<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=468985" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Gates of Paradise</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The eternal entrance into Eden<br>Is not locked with seven precious seals;<br>It has no charms nor light of heaven,<br>And the people don't know that it is.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's a doorway in a wall forgotten --<br>Stones, moss and nothing more else,<br>Near stands a beggar; and the rotten,<br>Keys are hanging at his gaudy waist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Paladins ride by in agitation,<br>Trumpets wail, and minted silver chant;<br>Nobody spares his attention<br>To the Peter -- the Apostle, the saint.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They dream: There, by Sepulchre of Savor,<br>Paradise will open doors for us;<br>At the footing of the Mount Thabor<br>The committed hour will thrust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So by the armored monster goes;<br>In the air the trumpets ring and wail;<br>The Apostle in the tattered cloth,<br>Like a beggar, looks and poor and pale.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Nikolai+Stepanovich+Gumilev">Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev</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=468985" data-title="The Gates of Paradise de Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev" data-description="The eternal entrance into Eden Is not locked with seven precious seals; It has no charms nor light of heaven, And the people don't know that it is. It's a doorway in a wall forgotten -- Stones, moss and nothing more else, Near stands a beggar; an..."></div> </div> </div>

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