<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472227" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mercy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Wake up son, the city is about to go up in flames! <br>Sins are many, they heap upon me all blames! <br>Take thy household, nothing else and flee.<br>To the hills, look not behind thee<br>Take no silver, take no gold<br>But thy coat to keep thee from the cold</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take no livestock, call no friends<br>Lest it pass from friends to fiends<br>wake now, wake all, hurry soon<br>Before the rising of another noon<br>Run now, to the hills begone<br>Lest my mercy upon thee undone! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But if thou has any word to say<br>I bid thee hence without delay<br>Pour out thy thoughts, say it now<br>For in thy flight no word will I allow<br>Speak now for thy earthly sake<br>And upon thy words, will I my judgment take'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'If there be, Lord! Ten righteous men in the city<br>Will thee upon all take no pity? '<br>'Aye! I will, my little one so precious<br>But there is none anywhere so righteous'<br>'Let then thy will o lord be done<br>Pray now, let me from hence begone'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But for my last, let me once more plea<br>for I have seen little kindness around me! <br>A lass indeed, mending another's cloth<br>And a lad giving to beggars his day's worth<br>Will thee o lord! such gesture omit<br>And thy fearful anger still permit? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Nay! My son, if such kindness exist, <br>I will my terrible vengeance now desist'<br>'Then Lord, for love sake shall I ask<br>That thy anger upon us, thou would not task'<br>'Aye son, for that love thou hath spoken, <br>Then shall thee rest secure, for I have my mercy given! ! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">©Allen 2006.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Okonkwo+Osamedua.+Allen">Okonkwo Osamedua. Allen</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=472227" data-title="Mercy de Okonkwo Osamedua. Allen" data-description="'Wake up son, the city is about to go up in flames! Sins are many, they heap upon me all blames! Take thy household, nothing else and flee. To the hills, look not behind thee Take no silver, take no gold But thy coat to keep thee from the cold ..."></div> </div> </div>

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