<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536427" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXIII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor later, when with her my childhood died,<br>Was life less sealed to me. The Church became<br>My guardian next and mother deified,<br>Who lit within me a more subtle flame<br>Of constancy, and clothed me in her mood.<br>No sound, no voice within that sanctuary<br>Told me of common evil. Unsubdued<br>And vast and strange, a thing from which to flee,<br>The world lay there without us. We within,<br>Fenced in and folded safe in our strong home,<br>Knew nothing of the sorrow and the sin.<br>'Tis no small matter to have lived in Rome,<br>In the Church's very bosom and abode,<br>Cloistered and cradled there, a child of God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wilfrid+Scawen+Blunt">Wilfrid Scawen Blunt</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=536427" data-title="Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXIII de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="Nor later, when with her my childhood died, Was life less sealed to me. The Church became My guardian next and mother deified, Who lit within me a more subtle flame Of constancy, and clothed me in her mood. No sound, no voice within that sanctuary..."></div> </div> </div>

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