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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511065" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Peace of Dives</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1903</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The Word came down to Dives in Torment where he lay:<br>"Our World is full of wickedness, My Children maim and slay,<br>"And the Saint and Seer and Prophet<br>"Can make no better of it<br>"Than to sanctify and prophesy and pray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Rise up, rise up, thou Dives, and take again thy gold,<br>"And thy women and thy housen as they were to thee of old.<br>"It may be grace hath found thee<br>"In the furnace where We bound thee,<br>"And that thou shalt bring the peace My Son foretold."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then merrily rose Dives and leaped from out his fire,<br>And walked abroad with diligence to do the Lord's desire;<br>And anon the battles ceased,<br>And the captives were released,<br>And Earth had rest from Goshen to Gadire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Word came down to Satan that raged and roared alone,<br>'Mid rhe shouring of the peoples by the cannon overthrown<br>(But the Prophets, Saints, and Seers<br>Set each other by the ears,<br>For each would claim the marvel as his own):</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Rise up, rise up, thou Satan, upon the Earth to go,<br>"And prove the Peace of Dives if it be good or no:<br>"For all that he hath planned<br>"We deliver to thy hand,<br>"As thy skill shall serve, to break it or bring low."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then mightily rose Satan, and about the Earth he hied,<br>And breathed on Kings in idleness and Princes drunk with pride.<br>But for all the wrong he breathed<br>There was never sword unsheathed,<br>And the fires he lighted flickered out and died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then terribly 'rose Satan, and darkened Earth afar,<br>Till he came on cunning Dives where the money-changers are;<br>And he saw men pledge their gear<br>For the bold that buys the spear,<br>And the helmet and the habergeon of war.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, to Dives came the Persian and the Syrian and the Mede --<br>And their hearts were nothing altered, nor their cunning nor their greed --<br>And they pledged their flocks and farms<br>For the King-compelling arms,<br>And Dives lent according to their need.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Satan said to Dives: -- "Return again with me,<br>"Who hast broken His Commandment in the day He set thee free,<br>"Who grindest for thy greed<br>"Man's belly-pinch and need,<br>"And the blood of Man to filthy usury!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then softly answered Dives where the money-changers sit: --<br>"My Refuge is Our Master, O My Master in the Pit.<br>"But behold all Earth is laid<br>"In the Peace which I have made,<br>"And behold I wait on thee to trouble it!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then angrily turned Satan, and about the Seas he fled,<br>To shake the new-sown peoples with insult, doubt, and dread;<br>But, for all the sleight he used,<br>There was never squadron loosed,<br>And the brands he flung flew dying and fell dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But to Dives came Atlantis and the Captains of the West --<br>And their hates were nothing weakened nor their angers unrest --<br>And they pawned their utmost trade<br>For the dry, decreeing blade;<br>And Dives lent and took of them their best.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Satan said to Dives: -- "Declare thou by The Name,<br>"The secret of thy subtlety that turneth mine to shame.<br>"It is knowvn through all the Hells<br>"How my peoples mocked my spells,<br>"And my faithless Kings denied me ere I came."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then answvered cunning Dives: "Do not gold and hate abide<br>"At the heart of every Magic, yea, and senseless fear beside?<br>"With gold and fear and hate<br>"I have harnessed state to state,<br>"And by hate and fear and gold their hates are tied.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"For hate men seek a weapon, for fear they seek a shield --<br>"Keener blades and broader targes than their frantic neighbours wield --<br>"For gold I arm their hands,<br>"And for gold I buy their lands,<br>"And for gold I sell their enemies the yield.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Their nearest foes may purchase, or their furthest friends may lease,<br>"One by one from Ancient Accad to the Islands of the Seas.<br>"And their covenants they make<br>"For the naked iron's sake,<br>"But I -- I trap them armoured into peace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"The flocks that Egypt pledged me to Assyria I drave,<br>"And Pharaoh hath the increase of the herds that Sargon gave.<br>"Not for Ashdod overthrown<br>"Will the Kings destroy their own,<br>"Or their peoples wake the strife they feign to brave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Is not Carchemish like Calno? For the steeds of their desire<br>"They have sold me seven harvests that I sell to Crowning Tyre;<br>"And the Tyrian sweeps the plains<br>"With a thousand hired wains,<br>"And the Cities keep the peace and -- share the hire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Hast thou seen the pride of Moab? For the swords about his path,<br>"His bond is to Philistia, in half of all he hath.<br>"And he dare not draw the sword<br>"Till Gaza give the word,<br>"And he show release from Askalon and Gath.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Wilt thou call again thy peoples, wilt thou craze anew thy Kings?<br>"Lo! my lightnings pass before thee, and their whistling servant brings,<br>"Ere the drowsy street hath stirred,<br>"Every masked and midnight word,<br>"And the nations break their fast upon these things.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"So I make a jest of Wonder, and a mock of Time and Space,<br>"The roofless Seas an hostel, and the Earth a market-place,<br>"Where the anxious traders know<br>"Each is surety for his foe,<br>"And none may thrive without his fellows' grace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Now this is all my subtlety and this is all my Wit,<br>"God give thee good enlightenment. My Master in the Pit.<br>"But behold all Earth is laid<br>"In the Peace which I have made,<br>"And behold I wait on thee to trouble it!"</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=511065" data-title="The Peace of Dives de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="1903 The Word came down to Dives in Torment where he lay: "Our World is full of wickedness, My Children maim and slay, "And the Saint and Seer and Prophet "Can make no better of it "Than to sanctify and prophesy and pray. &q..."></div> </div> </div>
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