<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529342" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Resignation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O God, whose thunder shakes the sky, <br>Whose eye this atom globe surveys, <br>To thee, my only rock, I fly, <br>Thy mercy in thy justice praise. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mystic mazes of thy will, <br>The shadows of celestial light, <br>Are past the pow'r of human skill,-- <br>But what th' Eternal acts is right. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O teach me in the trying hour, <br>When anguish swells the dewy tear, <br>To still my sorrows, own thy pow'r, <br>Thy goodness love, thy justice fear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If in this bosom aught but Thee <br>Encroaching sought a boundless sway, <br>Omniscience could the danger see, <br>And Mercy look the cause away. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then why, my soul, dost thou complain? <br>Why drooping seek the dark recess? <br>Shake off the melancholy chain. <br>For God created all to bless. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But ah! my breast is human still; <br>The rising sigh, the falling tear, <br>My languid vitals' feeble rill, <br>The sickness of my soul declare. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But yet, with fortitude resigned, <br>I'll thank th' inflicter of the blow; <br>Forbid the sigh, compose my mind, <br>Nor let the gush of mis'ry flow. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The gloomy mantle of the night, <br>Which on my sinking spirit steals, <br>Will vanish at the morning light, <br>Which God, my East, my sun reveals.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Chatterton">Thomas Chatterton</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=529342" data-title="The Resignation de Thomas Chatterton" data-description="O God, whose thunder shakes the sky, Whose eye this atom globe surveys, To thee, my only rock, I fly, Thy mercy in thy justice praise. The mystic mazes of thy will, The shadows of celestial light, Are past the pow'r of human skill,-- But w..."></div> </div> </div>

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