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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537517" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Figurative Description Of The Procedure Of Divine Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas my purpose, on a day,<br>To embark, and sail away.<br>As I climbed the vessel's side,<br>Love was sporting in the tide;<br>'Come,' he said, 'ascend—make haste,<br>Launch into the boundless waste.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many mariners were there,<br>Having each his separate care;<br>They that rowed us held their eyes<br>Fixed upon the starry skies;<br>Others steered, or turned the sails,<br>To receive the shifting gales.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love, with power divine supplied,<br>Suddenly my courage tried;<br>In a moment it was night,<br>Ship and skies were out of sight;<br>On the briny wave I lay,<br>Floating rushes all my stay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did I with resentment burn<br>At this unexpected turn?<br>Did I wish myself on shore,<br>Never to forsake it more?<br>No--'My soul,' I cried, 'be still;<br>If I must be lost, I will.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Next he hastened to convey<br>Both my frail supports away;<br>Seized my rushes; bade the waves<br>Yawn into a thousand graves:<br>Down I went, and sunk as lead,<br>Ocean closing o'er my head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still, however, life was safe;<br>And I saw him turn and laugh:<br>'Friend,' he cried, 'adieu! lie low,<br>While the wintry storms shall blow;<br>When the spring has calmed the main,<br>You shall rise and float again.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soon I saw him, with dismay,<br>Spread his plumes, and soar away;<br>Now I mark his rapid flight;<br>Now he leaves my aching sight;<br>He is gone whom I adore,<br>'Tis in vain to seek him more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How I trembled then and feared,<br>When my love had disappeared!<br>'Wilt thou leave me thus,' I cried,<br>'Whelmed beneath the rolling tide?'<br>Vain attempt to reach his ear!<br>Love was gone, and would not hear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! return, and love me still;<br>See me subject to thy will;<br>Frown with wrath, or smile with grace,<br>Only let me see thy face!<br>Evil I have none to fear,<br>All is good, if thou art near.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet he leaves me--cruel fate!<br>Leaves me in my lost estate--<br>Have I sinned? Oh, say wherein;<br>Tell me, and forgive my sin!<br>King, and Lord, whom I adore,<br>Shall I see thy face no more?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be not angry; I resign,<br>Henceforth, all my will to thine:<br>I consent that thou depart,<br>Though thine absence breaks my heart;<br>Go then, and for ever too:<br>All is right that thou wilt do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This was just what Love intended;<br>He was now no more offended;<br>Soon as I became a child,<br>Love returned to me and smiled:<br>Never strife shall more betide<br>'Twixt the bridegroom and his bride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</a><div class=q>
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To embark, and sail away.
As I climbed the vessel's side,
Love was sporting in the tide;
'Come,' he said, 'ascend—make haste,
Launch into the boundless waste.'

Many mariners were there,
Having each his separate care;..."></div>
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