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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511008" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The King and the Sea</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">After His Realms and States were moved <br>To bare their hearts to the King they loved, <br>Tendering themselves in homage and devotion, <br>The Tide Wave up the Channel spoke<br>To all those eager, exultant folk:-<br>'Hear now what Man was given you by the Ocean! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'There was no thought of Orb or Crown<br>When the single wooden chest went down<br>To the steering-flat, and the careless Gunroom haled him <br>To learn by ancient and bitter use,<br>How neither Favour nor Excuse,<br>Nor aught save his sheer self henceforth availed him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'There was no talk of birth or rank<br>By the slung hammock or scrubbed plank <br>In the steel-grated prisons where 1 cast him; <br>But niggard hours and a narrow space<br>For rest-and the naked light on his face-<br>While the ship's traffic flowed, unceasing, past him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Thus I schooled him to go and come-<br>To speak at the word-at a sign be dumb; <br>To stand to his task, not seeking others to aid him; <br>To share in honour what praise might fall<br>For the task accomplished, and-over all-<br>To swallow rebuke in silence. Thus I made him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I loosened every mood of the deep<br>On him, a child and sick for sleep,<br>Through the long watches that no time can measure, <br>When I drove him, deafened and choked and blind, <br>At the wave-tops cut and spun by the wind; <br>Lashing him, face and eyes, with my displeasure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I opened him all the guile of the seas-<br>Their sullen, swift-sprung treacheries, <br>To be fought, or forestalled, or dared, or dismissed with laughter.<br>I showed him Worth by Folly concealed, <br>And the flaw in the soul that a chance revealed <br>(Lessons remembered-to bear fruit thereafter). <br>'I dealt him Power beneath his hand,<br>For trial and proof, with his first Command-<br>Himself alone, and no man to gainsay him. <br>On him the End, the Means, and the Word, <br>And the harsher judgment if he erred, <br>And-outboard-Ocean waiting to betray him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Wherefore, when he came to be crowned, <br>Strength in Duty held him bound,<br>So that not Power misled nor ease ensnared him<br>Who had spared himself no more than his seas had spared him!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After His Lieges, in all His Lands,<br>Had laid their hands between His hands,<br>And His ships thundered service and devotion, <br>The Tide Wave, ranging the Planet, spoke <br>On all Our foreshores as it broke:-<br>'Know now what Man 1 gave you-I, the Ocean!'</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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To bare their hearts to the King they loved, 
Tendering themselves in homage and devotion, 
The Tide Wave up the Channel spoke
To all those eager, exultant folk:-
'Hear now what Man was given you by the Ocea..."></div>
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