<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510930" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Burial</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">C. F. Rhodes, buried in the Matoppos, April 10, 1902</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>When that great Kings return to clay,<br>Or Emperors in their pride,<br>Grief of a day shall fill a day,<br>Because its creature died.<br>But we -- we reckon not with those<br>Whom the mere Fates ordain,<br>This Power that wrought on us and goes<br>Back to the Power again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dreamer devout, by vision led<br>Beyond our guess or reach,<br>The travail of his spirit bred<br>Cities in place of speech.<br>So huge the all-mastering thought that drove --<br>So brief the term allowed --<br>Nations, not words, he linked to prove<br>His faith before the crowd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is his will that he look forth<br>Across the world he won --<br>The granite of the ancient North --<br>Great spaces washed with sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There shall he patient take his seat<br>(As when the Death he dared),<br>And there await a people's feet<br>In the paths that he prepared.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There, till the vision he foresaw<br>Splendid and whole arise,<br>And unimagined Empires draw<br>To council 'neath his skies,<br>The immense and brooding Spirit still<br>Shall quicken and control.<br>Living he was the land, and dead,<br>His soul shall be her soul!</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=510930" data-title="The Burial de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="C. F. Rhodes, buried in the Matoppos, April 10, 1902 When that great Kings return to clay, Or Emperors in their pride, Grief of a day shall fill a day, Because its creature died. But we -- we reckon not with those Whom the mere Fates ordain, Thi..."></div> </div> </div>

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