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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540077" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode to Duty</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">STERN Daughter of the Voice of God! <br>O Duty! if that name thou love, <br>Who art a light to guide, a rod <br>To check the erring and reprove; <br>Thou, who art victory and law <br>When empty terrors overawe; <br>From vain temptations dost set free; <br>And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are who ask not if thine eye <br>Be on them; who, in love and truth, <br>Where no misgiving is, rely <br>Upon the genial sense of youth: <br>Glad hearts! without reproach or blot; <br>Who do thy work, and know it not: <br>O, if through confidence misplaced <br>They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power! around them cast. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Serene will be our days and bright, <br>And happy will our nature be, <br>When love is an unerring light, <br>And joy its own security. <br>And they a blissful course may hold <br>Even now, who, not unwisely bold, <br>Live in the spirit of this creed; <br>Yet seek thy firm support, according to their need. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I, loving freedom, and untried; <br>No sport of every random gust, <br>Yet being to myself a guide, <br>Too blindly have reposed my trust: <br>And oft, when in my heart was heard <br>Thy timely mandate, I deferr'd <br>The task, in smoother walks to stray; <br>But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through no disturbance of my soul, <br>Or strong compunction in me wrought, <br>I supplicate for thy control; <br>But in the quietness of thought. <br>Me this uncharter'd freedom tires; <br>I feel the weight of chance-desires; <br>My hopes no more must change their name, <br>I long for a repose that ever is the same. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet not the less would I throughout <br>Still act according to the voice <br>Of my own wish; and feel past doubt <br>That my submissiveness was choice: <br>Not seeking in the school of pride <br>For 'precepts over dignified,' <br>Denial and restraint I prize <br>No farther than they breed a second Will more wise. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear <br>The Godhead's most benignant grace; <br>Nor know we anything so fair <br>As is the smile upon thy face: <br>Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, <br>And fragrance in thy footing treads; <br>Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; <br>And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To humbler functions, awful Power! <br>I call thee: I myself commend <br>Unto thy guidance from this hour; <br>O, let my weakness have an end! <br>Give unto me, made lowly wise, <br>The spirit of self-sacrifice; <br>The confidence of reason give; <br>And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a><div class=q>
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O Duty! if that name thou love, 
Who art a light to guide, a rod 
To check the erring and reprove; 
Thou, who art victory and law 
When empty terrors overawe; 
From vain temptations dost set free; 
And calm'st ..."></div>
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