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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510993" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Holy War</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1917</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For here lay the excellent wisdom of him that built Mansoul, that the walls could never be broken down nor hurt by the most mighty adverse potentate unless the townsmen gave consent thereto. --Bunyan's Holy War.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>A tinker out of Bedford,<br>A vagrant oft in quod,<br>A privet under Fairfax,<br>A minister of God--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two hundred years and thirty<br>Ere Armageddon came<br>His single hand portrayed it,<br>And Bunyan was his name!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He mapped for those who follow,<br>The world in which we are--<br>&quot;This famous town of Mansoul&quot;<br>That takes the Holy War.<br>Her true and traitor people,<br>The gates along her wall,<br>From Eye Gate unto Feel Gate,<br>John Bunyan showed them all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All enemy divisions,<br>Recruits of every class,<br>And highly-screened positions<br>For flame or poison-gas;<br>The craft that we call modern,<br>The crimes that we call new,<br>John Bunyan had 'em typed and filed<br>In sixteen Eighty-two.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Likewise the Lords of Looseness<br>That hamper faith and works,<br>The Perseverance-Doubters,<br>And Present-Comfort shirks,<br>With brittle intellectuals<br>Who crack beneath a strain--<br>John Bunyan met that helpful set<br>In Charles the Second's reign.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Emmanuel's vanguard dying<br>For right and not for rights,<br>My Lord Apollyon lying<br>To the State-kept Stockholmites,<br>The Pope, the swithering Neutrals<br>The Kaiser and his Gott--<br>Their roles, their goals, their naked souls--<br>He knew and drew the lot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now he hath left his quarters,<br>In Bunhill Fields to lie,<br>The wisdom that he taught us<br>Is proven prophecy--<br>One watchword through our Armies,<br>One answer from our Lands:--<br>&quot;No dealings with Diabolus<br>As long as Mansoul stands!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A pedlar from a hovel,<br>The lowest of the low,<br>The Father of the Novel,<br>Salvation's first Defoe,<br>Eight blinded generations<br>Ere Armageddon came,<br>He showed us how to meet it,<br>And Bunyan was his name!</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>
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For here lay the excellent wisdom of him that built Mansoul, that the walls could never be broken down nor hurt by the most mighty adverse potentate unless the townsmen gave consent thereto. --Bunyan's Holy War.


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