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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=498278" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To the Noblest and Best of Ladies, the Countess of Denbigh</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Persuading her to resolution in religion, and to<br>Render herself without further delay into the <br>Communion of the Catholic Church</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>What Heaven-entreated heart is this, <br>Stands trembling at the gate of bliss?<br>Holds fast the door, yet dares not venture<br>Fairly to open it, and enter;<br>Whose definition is a doubt<br>'Twixt life and death, 'twixt in and out.<br>Say, lingering fair, why comes the birth<br>Of your brave soul so slowly forth?<br>Plead your pretenses, O you strong<br>In weakness, why you choose so long<br>In labor of yourself to lie,<br>Not daring quite to live nor die.<br>Ah, linger not, loved soul! A slow<br>And late consent was a long no;<br>Who grants at last, long time tried<br>And did his best to have denied.<br>What magic bolts, what mystic bars<br>Maintain the will in these strange wars!<br>What fatal, yet fantastic bands<br>Keep the free heart from its own hands!<br>So when the year takes cold we see<br>Poor waters their own prisoners be;<br>Fettered and locked up fast they lie<br>In a sad self-captivity.<br>The astonished nymphs their flood's strange fate deplore,<br>To see themselves their own severer shore.<br>Thou that alone canst thaw this cold,<br>And fetch the heart from its stronghold,<br>Almighty Love! end this long war,<br>And of a meteor make a star.<br>Oh, fix this fair indefinite,<br>And 'mongst Thy shafts of sovereign light<br>Choose out that sure decisive dart<br>Which has the key of this close heart,<br>Knows all the corners of 't, and can control <br>The self-shut cabinet of an unsearched soul.<br>Oh, let it be at last Love's hour; <br>Raise this tall trophy of Thy power;<br>Come once the conquering way, not to confute<br>But kill this rebel-word, 'irresolute,'<br>That so, in spite of all this peevish strength<br>Of weakness, she may write, 'Resolved at length.'<br>Unfold at length, unfold, fair flower,<br>And use the season of Love's shower;<br>Meet His well-meaning wounds, wise heart!<br>And haste to drink the wholesome dart,<br>That healing shaft, which Heaven till now<br>Hath in Love's quiver hid for you. <br>O dart of Love! arrow of light!<br>O happy you, if it hit right!<br>It must not fall in vain, it must<br>Not mark the dry regardless dust.<br>Fair one, it is your fate, and brings<br>Eternal worlds upon its wings.<br>Meet it with wide-spread arms, and see<br>Its seat your soul's just center be.<br>Disband dull fears, give faith the day;<br>To save your life, kill your delay.<br>It is Love's siege, and sure to be<br>Your triumph, through His victory.<br>'Tis cowardice that keeps this field,<br>And want of courage not to yield.<br>Yield then, O yield, that Love may win<br>The fort at last, and let life in;<br>Yield quickly, lest perhaps you prove<br>Death's prey, before the prize of Love.<br>This fort of your fair self, if't be not won, <br>He is repulsed indeed, but you're undone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Richard+Crashaw">Richard Crashaw</a><div class=q>
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