tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72846742011-07-08T10:04:42.212-04:00朋友noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7284674.post-1158442666347396102006-09-16T17:35:00.001-04:002010-10-09T14:08:23.622-04:00<span style="font-weight:bold;">The Travail of the World</span><br /><br />Why are the nations in travail to the utmost ends of the earth?<br />From the East to the West what signs are these?<br />What Saviour struggles to birth?<br />China wakes from her age-long sleep, for the Land of the Rising Sun<br />Has shown the East she may vie with the West for the cargo and the gun;<br />Yellow and swarthy, mongol and moor,<br />You shall rackon with these, my son.<br /><br />Who shall bind the East to the West? Who shall make one these twain?<br />The Buddha Lord—the Enlightened One, or He the Jordan Plain?<br />Allah's Prophet, or He who of late by the foot of Carmel trod,<br />Persia's holiest Son who shone forth with the splendour of God?<br />Never the East Shall cleave to the West<br />Till the gods sharethe same abode.<br /><br />The Moslem from the Koran hears the Truth that he must learn;<br />The Hindu in the Vedas sees the Way his feet should turn;<br />In Moses and the Prophets the Jew restores his soul;<br />The Christian in the Gospel finds the Life which is the Whole;<br />And all may read the self-same speech,<br />No matter what the scroll.<br /><br />That God is one; that men are one; that Faith is ever the same;<br />That Love is still the nearest word to hint the nameless Name.<br />This is the Creed of the East and the West when you plumb to the depths, my son,<br />For the Word of the Lord is unity, and the Will of the Lord shall be done.<br />Hands are black, white, yellow or brown,<br />But the hue of the heart is one.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7284674-115844266634739610?l=drop-by-drop.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>朋友noreply@blogger.com0