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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511133" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Threshold</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In their deepest caverns of limestone<br> They pictured the Gods of Food--<br>The Horse, the Elk, and the Bison<br> That the hunting might be good;<br>With the Gods of Death and Terror--<br> The Mammoth, Tiger, and Bear.<br>And the pictures moved in the torchlight<br> To show that the Gods were there!<br> But that was before Ionia--<br> (Or the Seven Holy Islands of Ionia)<br> Any of the Mountains of Ionia,<br> Had bared their peaks to the air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The close years packed behind them,<br> As the glaciers bite and grind,<br>Filling the new-gouged valleys<br> With Gods of every kind.<br>Gods of all-reaching power--<br> Gods of all-searching eyes--<br>But each to be wooed by worship<br> And won by sacrifice.<br> Till, after many winters, rose Ionia-- <br> (Strange men brooding in Ionia)<br> Crystal-eyed Sages of Ionia<br> Who said, &quot;These tales are lies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;We dream one Breath in all things,<br> &quot;That blows all things between.<br>&quot;We dream one Matter in all things--<br> &quot;Eternal, changeless, unseen.<br>&quot;'That the heart of the Matter is single<br> &quot;Till the Breath shall bid it bring forth--<br>&quot;By choosing or losing its neighbour--<br> &quot;All things made upon Earth.&quot;<br> But Earth was wiser than Ionia<br> (Babylon and Egypt than Ionia)<br> And they overlaid the teaching of Ionia<br> And the Truth was choked at birth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It died at the Gate of Knowledge--<br> The Key to the Gate in its hand--<br>And the anxious priests and wizards<br> Re-blinded the wakening land;<br>For they showed, by answering echoes,<br> And chasing clouds as they rose,<br>How shadows should stand for bulwarks<br> Between mankind and its woes.<br> It was then that men bethought them of Ionia<br> (The few that had not allforgot Ionia) <br> Or the Word that was whispered in Ionia;<br> And they turned from the shadows and the shows.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They found one Breath in all things,<br> That moves all things between.<br>They proved one Matter in all things--<br> Eternal, changeless, unseen;<br>That the heart of the Matter was single<br> Till the Breath should bid it bring forth--<br> Even as men whispered in Ionia,<br> (Resolute, unsatisfied Ionia)<br> Ere the Word was stifled in Ionia--<br> All things known upon earth!</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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 They pictured the Gods of Food--
The Horse, the Elk, and the Bison
 That the hunting might be good;
With the Gods of Death and Terror--
 The Mammoth, Tiger, and Bear.
And the pictures moved in the torchlight
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