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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=548060" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cease To Do Evil – Learn To Do Well</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! thou whom sacred duty hither calls,<br>Some glorious hours in freedom's cause to dwell,<br>Read the mute lesson on thy prison walls,<br>'Cease to do evil-learn to do well.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If haply thou art one of genius vast,<br>Of generous heart, of mind sublime and grand,<br>Who all the spring-time of thy life has pass'd<br>Battling with tyrants for thy native land,<br>If thou hast spent thy summer as thy prime,<br>The serpent brood of bigotry to quell,<br>Repent, repent thee of thy hideous crime,<br>'Cease to do evil-learn to do well!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If thy great heart beat warmly in the cause<br>Of outraged man, whate'er his race might be,<br>If thou hast preached the Christian's equal laws,<br>And stayed the lash beyond the Indian sea!<br>If at thy call a nation rose sublime,<br>If at thy voice seven million fetters fell,-<br>Repent, repent thee of thy hideous crime,<br>'Cease to do evil-learn to do well!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If thou hast seen thy country's quick decay,<br>And, like the prophet, raised thy saving hand,<br>And pointed out the only certain way<br>To stop the plague that ravaged o'er the land!<br>If thou hast summoned from an alien clime<br>Her banished senate here at home to dwell:<br>Repent, repent thee of thy hideous crime,<br>'Cease to do evil-learn to do well!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or if, perchance, a younger man thou art,<br>Whose ardent soul in throbbings doth aspire,<br>Come weal, come woe, to play the patriot's part<br>In the bright footsteps of thy glorious sire<br>If all the pleasures of life's youthful time<br>Thou hast abandoned for the martyr's cell,<br>Do thou repent thee of thy hideous crime,<br>'Cease to do evil-learn to do well!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or art thou one whom early science led<br>To walk with Newton through the immense of heaven,<br>Who soared with Milton, and with Mina bled,<br>And all thou hadst in freedom's cause hast given?<br>Oh! fond enthusiast-in the after time<br>Our children's children of thy worth shall tell-<br>England proclaims thy honesty a crime,<br>'Cease to do evil-learn to do well!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or art thou one whose strong and fearless pen<br>Roused the Young Isle, and bade it dry its tears,<br>And gathered round thee ardent, gifted men,<br>The hope of Ireland in the coming years?<br>Who dares in prose and heart-awakening rhyme,<br>Bright hopes to breathe and bitter truths to tell?<br>Oh! dangerous criminal, repent thy crime,<br>'Cease to do evil-learn to do well!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Cease to do evil'-ay! ye madmen, cease!<br>Cease to love Ireland-cease to serve her well;<br>Make with her foes a foul and fatal peace,<br>And quick will ope your darkest, dreariest cell.<br>'Learn to do well'-ay! learn to betray,<br>Learn to revile the land in which you dwell<br>England will bless you on your altered way<br>'Cease to do evil-learn to do well!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Denis+Florence+MacCarthy">Denis Florence MacCarthy</a><div class=q>
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Some glorious hours in freedom's cause to dwell,
Read the mute lesson on thy prison walls,
'Cease to do evil-learn to do well.'

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Of generous heart, of mind sublime and g..."></div>
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