<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506624" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Nineveh.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As he of Joppa sought to 'scape<br>The utterance of the given word,<br>And dared to get him from the Lord<br>In a ship down to Tarshish, — know<br>Thou canst not any burden throw<br>That was ordained for thee to bear<br>Though faith may make it light as air.<br>Though thou within the dust may rave,<br>Within the dust may rave and curse<br>Thy being and the universe,<br>He sends His lightnings still abroad,<br>Yet plants for thee the shadowy gourd,<br>And comes so near He leaves a trace<br>Of beauty on thy bitter face.<br>Thou canst not lose thyself: thou art<br>The given word; its utterance too<br>Is in all thou dost dream and do:<br>All men must hear it, hearing thee:<br>Thou canst not 'scape the prophecy<br>Of thy life here, howe'er thou rave<br>Between the cradle and the grave.<br>What if thou wert He, being here —<br>So much of Him made flesh as can<br>Find its conception in a man;<br>Thy very breath His own, and thou<br>The veriest utterance of Him now?<br>It is His work: — let thyself be,<br>And He will cry in Nineveh!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Crawford">Robert Crawford</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=506624" data-title="In Nineveh. de Robert Crawford" data-description="As he of Joppa sought to 'scape The utterance of the given word, And dared to get him from the Lord In a ship down to Tarshish, — know Thou canst not any burden throw That was ordained for thee to bear Though faith may make it light as air. Thou..."></div> </div> </div>

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