<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472535" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tatarus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHILE in my simple gospel creed<br>That 'God is Love' so plain I read,<br>Shall dreams of heathen birth affright<br>My pathway through the coming night?<br>Ah, Lord of life, though spectres pale<br>Fill with their threats the shadowy vale,<br>With Thee my faltering steps to aid,<br>How can I dare to be afraid?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall mouldering page or fading scroll<br>Outface the charter of the soul?<br>Shall priesthood's palsied arm protect<br>The wrong our human hearts reject,<br>And smite the lips whose shuddering cry<br>Proclaims a cruel creed a lie?<br>The wizard's rope we disallow<br>Was justice once,--is murder now!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is there a world of blank despair,<br>And dwells the Omnipresent there?<br>Does He behold with smile serene<br>The shows of that unending scene,<br>Where sleepless, hopeless anguish lies,<br>And, ever dying, never dies?<br>Say, does He hear the sufferer's groan,<br>And is that child of wrath his own?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O mortal, wavering in thy trust,<br>Lift thy pale forehead from the dust!<br>The mists that cloud thy darkened eyes<br>Fade ere they reach the o'erarching skies<br>When the blind heralds of despair<br>Would bid thee doubt a Father's care,<br>Look up from earth, and read above<br>On heaven's blue tablet, GOD IS LOVE!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</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=472535" data-title="Tatarus de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="WHILE in my simple gospel creed That 'God is Love' so plain I read, Shall dreams of heathen birth affright My pathway through the coming night? Ah, Lord of life, though spectres pale Fill with their threats the shadowy vale, With Thee my faltering..."></div> </div> </div>

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