<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529092" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lady, The Fates Command</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lady, the fates command, and I must go,--- <br>Leaving the pleasant land so dear to me: <br>Here my heart suffered many a heavy woe: <br>But what is left to love, thus leaving thee? <br>Alas! that cruel land beyond the see! <br>Why thus dividing many a faithful heart, <br>Never again from pain and sorrow free, <br>Never again to meet, when thus they part? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see not, when thy presence bright I leave, <br>How wealth, or joy, or peace can be my lot: <br>Ne'er yet my spirit found such cause to grieve <br>As now in leaving thee; and if thy thought <br>Of me in absence should be sorrow-fraught, <br>Oft will my heart repentant turn to thee, <br>Dwelling, in fruitless wishes, on this spot, <br>And all the gracious words here said to me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O gracious God! to thee I bend my knee, <br>For thy sake yielding all I love and prize; <br>And O, how mighty must that influence be, <br>That steals me thus from all my cherished joys! <br>Here, ready, then, myself surrendering, <br>Prepared to serve thee, I submit; and ne'er <br>To one so faithful could I service bring, <br>So kind a master, so beloved and dear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And strong my ties---my grief unspeakable! <br>Grief, all my choicest treasures to resign; <br>Yet stronger still the affections that impel <br>My heart toward Him, the God whose love is mine. <br>That holy love, how beautiful! how strong! <br>Even wisdom's favorite sons take refuge there; <br>'T is the redeeming gem that shines among <br>Men's darkest thoughts,---for ever bright and fair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thibaut+de+Champagne">Thibaut de Champagne</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=529092" data-title="Lady, The Fates Command de Thibaut de Champagne" data-description="Lady, the fates command, and I must go,--- Leaving the pleasant land so dear to me: Here my heart suffered many a heavy woe: But what is left to love, thus leaving thee? Alas! that cruel land beyond the see! Why thus dividing many a faithful ..."></div> </div> </div>

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