<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=569075" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poem of Pure Autobiography</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mother was Presbyterian and Dad Roman Catholic <br>It took them a silver anniversary to truly bridge the gulf<br>And I about as long to find my way <br>With help from Quakers and Unitarians and other<br>Strange creatures of the light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Princeton all but bluntly told me that my type was not welcome<br>And Chicago was offended at chapbook publishing that spoofed at Shelly<br>But Berkeley welcomed me <br>And much to Mother's dismay I said 'yes'<br>Not knowing what yes could mean<br>But desperate for heavier credentials.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Harvard even dimly figures in <br>For all my friends were going not to Harvard<br>But to its antitheses established in the great fight<br>That split New England congregationalism<br>And gave the word - Unitarian - to us as a term of derision.<br>Even Andover-Newton was not right<br>I tried it for three full days <br>Knowing by instinct's pain it was not the place.<br>Despite Dean Peck's powerful preaching. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Berkeley was for me correct and in its great freedom <br>A strange thing emerged, a love to learn would come and stay<br>Following this strange thing called truth<br>To an old rugged cross<br>Quite acceptable to Presbyterians but not to those Unitarians<br>Who are too busy to stop and learn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bill+Grace">Bill Grace</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=569075" data-title="Poem of Pure Autobiography de Bill Grace" data-description="Mother was Presbyterian and Dad Roman Catholic It took them a silver anniversary to truly bridge the gulf And I about as long to find my way With help from Quakers and Unitarians and other Strange creatures of the light. Princeton all but blunt..."></div> </div> </div>

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