<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510992" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Heritage</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our Fathers in a wondrous age,<br>Ere yet the Earth was small,<br>Ensured to us a heritage,<br>And doubted not at all <br>That we the children of their heart,<br>Which then did beat so high,<br>In later rime should play like part<br>For our posterity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A thousand years they steadfast built,<br>To 'vantage us and ours,<br>The Walls that were a world's despair,<br>The sea-constraining Towers:<br>Yet in their midmost pride they knew,<br>And unto Kings made known,<br>Not all from these their strength they drew,<br>Their faith from brass or stone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Youth's passion, manhood's fierce intent,<br>With age's judgment wise,<br>They spent, and counted not they spent,<br>At daily sacrifice. <br>Not lambs alone nor purchased doves .<br>Or tithe of trader's gold--<br>Their lives most dear, their dearer loves,<br>They offered up of old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Refraining e'en from lawful things,<br>They bowed the neck to bear<br>The unadorned yoke that brings<br>Stark toil and sternest care.<br>Wherefore through them is Freedom sure;<br>Wherefore through them we stand,<br>From all but sloth and pride secure,<br>In a delightsome land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, fretful, murmur not they gave<br>So great a charge to keep,<br>Nor dream that awestruck Time shall save<br>Their labour while we sleep.<br>Dear-bought and clear, a thousand year,<br>Our fathers' title runs.<br>Make we likewise their sacrifice,<br>Defrauding not our sons.</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=510992" data-title="The Heritage de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="Our Fathers in a wondrous age, Ere yet the Earth was small, Ensured to us a heritage, And doubted not at all That we the children of their heart, Which then did beat so high, In later rime should play like part For our posterity. A thousand year..."></div> </div> </div>

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