{"product_id":"the-dark-ages-von-abraham-lincoln","title":"The Dark Ages","description":"\u003cp\u003eMEN call you ¿dark.¿ What factory then blurred the light \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf golden suns, when nothing blacker than the shades \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf coming rain climbed up the heather-mantled height? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e While the air \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBreathed all the scents of all untrodden flowers, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd brooks poured silver through the glimmering glades, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen sweetly wound through virgin ground. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMust all that beauty pass? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd must our pleasure trains \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike foul eruptions belch upon the mountain head? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMust we perforce build vulgar villa lanes, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd on sweet fields of grass \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe canting scutcheons of a cheating commerce spread? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMen call you ¿dark.¿ Did that faith see with cobwebbed eyes, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat built the airy octagon on Ely¿s hill,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Gloucester¿s Eastern wall that woos the topaz skies,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Where the hymn \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAngelic ¿Glory be to God on high,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd peace on earth to men who feel good will,¿\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMight softly sound God¿s throne around? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs that a perfect faith \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich pew-filled chapels rears, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere Gothic fronts of stone mask backs of ill-baked bricks, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd where the frothy fighting preacher fears, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs peasants fear a wraith, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis deacon¿s frown or some just change in politics?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9791041986965\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9791041986965","offer_id":48235662180677,"sku":"9791041986965","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/deb68c33-dc61-48c5-b99a-0c7b5c73939f.jpg?v=1760246411","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/the-dark-ages-von-abraham-lincoln","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}