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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=524782" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cornerstones</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gibran left an Empire decaying <br>in ashes of former greatness.<br>Who will come as phoenix to nation <br>reborn, growing steadily in strength? <br>Moulding itself in virtue’s light <br>seeking crystal rays of clear vision.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Must many bring cornerstones together <br>for construction of a monument’s making? <br>Master builder cannot build <br>on gigantean scale alone.<br>To build an edifice to mankind <br>takes co-operative efforts of many hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>How is it O Lebanon! Splinter cast free <br>of encroaching empires’ dominance<br>that war has come to tear your heart? <br>From heaven’s height O Beirut<br>do tears fall of Gibran’s weeping.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In your streets do your children die emasculated <br>stricken with hunger’s pain, diseases’ clawing hand.<br>Though exiled by masters of a former empire<br>Gibran never left you O Lebanon.<br>His body was ever cloaked with garment <br>of your ways his heart, ever full <br>with a father’s love O Lebanon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where are his sons Oh country of his love? <br>To comfort children of that love in need.<br>To stay bloody hand tearing a noble heart, <br>to lead toward prosperity and rejoicing.<br>Where O Lebanon! And where is promise? <br>Vision his awakened dream foretold overflowing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Come new nations <br>of Empires ancient origin <br>as stranger walking streets <br>beyond antiquated walls.<br>Crushing inwards <br>are confining <br>mounds of rubble.<br>Future cities <br>have outgrown <br>their necessity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In mosque and bazaar also pass <br>heralded, shadow of new age.<br>Paying homage to belief to tradition <br>which is upheld in all found good.<br>But swift and mighty be axe <br>to cut out cleanly, <br>creeping rotting wood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a strong nation <br>facing a demanding age; <br>Cannot stand <br>on weak foundations <br>time’s undermined.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like prophets chosen of Allah <br>calming waves <br>of an encroaching hungry sea <br>are those enlightened <br>hearing the stirring of a coming voice. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>When will you hear O Lebanon? <br>When will you gather fruit<br>prepared of your prophet? <br>Gladly eat of love’s gift <br>to lighten centuries’ burden? <br>Are not all races of man <br>starving simultaneously as one? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But then children <br>yours was a political <br>Lebanon’s problems.<br>His was Lebanon <br>of natural beauty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shrouds of ash and smoke burn <br>like funeral fires.<br>Hide face of the moon.<br>May wisdom’s seed blossom <br>in the garden of your soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Khalil Gibran was born in the Christian Maronite town of Bsharri in Lebanon, then part of the Ottoman Empire in decline, the remnant of which became the Republic of Turkey, under the leadership of Generals like Kazim Karabekir and Mustafa Kamel; who became Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Gibran’s mother was the daughter of a Maronite priest and priests taught Gibran about the Bible, and Arabic and Syriac languages. Maronite Christian’s spoke a dialect of Aramic and Christian Aramaic is still the liturgical language of the Maronite Church. Gibran returned to his homeland, at age fifteen, to study at a Maronite institute in Beirut. Gibran supported Arabic as a national language for Syria and wrote the famous poem ‘Pity The Nation’. <br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q>
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