Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran

Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran

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Your Lebanon is an arena for men from the West and men from the East.


My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadows and rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.


You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.


Yours are those whose souls were born in the hospitals of the West; they are as a ship without rudder or sail upon a raging sea . . . . They are strong and eloquent among themselves but weak and dumb among Europeans.


They are brave, the liberators and the reformers, but only in their own area. But they are the cowards, always led backward by the Europeans. They are those who croak like frogs boasting that they have rid themselves of their ancient, tyrannical enemy, but the truth of the matter is that this tyrannical enemy still hides within their own souls. They are the slaves for whom time had exchanged rusty chains for shiny ones so that they thought themselves free. These are the children of your Lebanon. Is there anyone among them who represents the strength of the towering rocks of Lebanon, the purity of its water or the fragrance of its air? Who among them vouchsafes to say, "When I die I leave my country little better than when I was born?"

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2009
July 29
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
213
Pages
PUBLISHER
Library of Alexandria
SELLER
The Library of Alexandria
SIZE
398.1
KB
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