<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=569569" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Principalities, Dominions and Thrones</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cathedral, how many times now<br>Have your windows been washed<br>By the tears of lovers, broken by the rack</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How many times has the blood of martyrs<br>Flowed unchecked, across your cracked floors</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How many vile plagues seeped in<br>Through the stained glass eye<br>Leering upward into the face<br>Of heaven's disappointment</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How many effigies of the saints<br>Witnessed you turning on your own edicts<br>When other tides had turned against you</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And how many statues were destroyed<br>In the raging quakes of anger<br>Inside the hearts of the downtrodden</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your basins overflowed with theft and pillage<br>Your prisons flowered forth rape and torture<br>You left the world worse off than it was before</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you should ever fall, tumble down<br>The earth itself would crack wide open<br>Down to its very marrow bones of outrage</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And finally release all your victims from bondage<br>Something you would never do for them<br>In the burning holocaust that was their lives.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Patti+Masterman">Patti Masterman</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=569569" data-title="Principalities, Dominions and Thrones de Patti Masterman" data-description="Cathedral, how many times now Have your windows been washed By the tears of lovers, broken by the rack How many times has the blood of martyrs Flowed unchecked, across your cracked floors How many vile plagues seeped in Through the stained glass..."></div> </div> </div>

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