<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510994" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Hour of the Angel</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sooner or late--in earnest or in jest--<br>(But the stakes are no jest) Ithuriel's Hour<br>Will spring on us, for the first time, the test<br>Of our sole unbacked competence and power<br>Up to the limit of our years and dower<br>Of judgment--or beyond. But here we have<br>Prepared long since our garland or our grave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For, at that hour, the sum of all our past,<br>Act, habit, thought, and passion, shall be cast<br>In one addition, be it more or less,<br>And as that reading runs so shall we do; <br>Meeting, astounded, victory at the last,<br>Or, first and last, our own unworthiness.<br>And none can change us though they die to save!</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=510994" data-title="The Hour of the Angel de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="Sooner or late--in earnest or in jest-- (But the stakes are no jest) Ithuriel's Hour Will spring on us, for the first time, the test Of our sole unbacked competence and power Up to the limit of our years and dower Of judgment--or beyond. But here ..."></div> </div> </div>

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