<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510846" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Our Fathers Also</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thrones, Powers, Dominions, Peoples, Kings,<br>Are changing 'neath our hand.<br>Our fathers also see these things<br>But they do not understand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By--they are by with mirth and tears,<br>Wit or the works of Desire-<br>Cushioned about on the kindly years<br>Between the wall and the fire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The grapes are pressed, the corn is shocked--<br>Standeth no more to glean;<br>For the Gates of Love and Learning locked<br>When they went out between.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All lore our Lady Venus bares,<br>Signalled it was or told<br>By the dear lips long given to theirs<br>And longer to the mould.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All Profit, all Device, all Truth,<br>Written it was or said<br>By the mighty men of their mighty youth,<br>Which is mighty being dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The film that floats before their eyes<br>The Temple's Veil they call;<br>And the dust that on the Shewbread lies<br>Is holy over all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Warn them of seas that slip our yoke,<br>Of slow-conspiring stars-<br>The ancient Front of Things unbroke<br>But heavy with new wars?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By--they are by with mirth and tears,<br>Wit or the waste of Desire-<br>Cushioned about on the kindly years<br>Between the wall and the fire!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</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=510846" data-title="Our Fathers Also de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="Thrones, Powers, Dominions, Peoples, Kings, Are changing 'neath our hand. Our fathers also see these things But they do not understand. By--they are by with mirth and tears, Wit or the works of Desire- Cushioned about on the kindly years Between ..."></div> </div> </div>

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