<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116041" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>"Glide soft, ye Silver Floods"</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Glide soft, ye silver floods,<br>And every spring:<br>Within the shady woods<br>Let no bird sing!<br>Nor from the grove a turtle-dove<br>Be seen to couple with her love;<br>But silence on each dale and mountain dwell,<br>Whilst Willy bids his friend and joy farewell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But (of great Thetis' train)<br>Ye mermaids fair,<br>That on the shores do plain<br>Your sea-green hair,<br>As ye in trammels knit your locks,<br>Weep ye; and so enforce the rocks<br>In heavy murmurs through the broad shores tell<br>How Willy bade his friend and joy farewell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cease, cease, ye murd'ring winds,<br>To move a wave;<br>But if with troubled minds<br>You seek his grave;<br>Know 'tis as various as yourselves,<br>Now in the deep, then on the shelves,<br>His coffin toss'd by fish and surges fell,<br>Whilst Willy weeps and bids all joy farewell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Had he Arion-like<br>Been judged to drown,<br>He on his lute could strike<br>So rare a sowne,<br>A thousand dolphins would have come<br>And jointly strive to bring him home.<br>But he on shipboard died, by sickness fell,<br>Since when his Willy bade all joy farewell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Great Neptune, hear a swain!<br>His coffin take,<br>And with a golden chain<br>For pity make<br>It fast unto a rock near land!<br>Where ev'ry calmy morn I'll stand,<br>And ere one sheep out of my fold I tell,<br>Sad Willy's pipe shall bid his friend farewell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Browne">William Browne</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=116041" data-title=""Glide soft, ye Silver Floods" de William Browne" data-description="Glide soft, ye silver floods,/And every spring:/Within the shady woods/Let no bird sing!/Nor from the grove a turtle-dove/Be seen to couple with her love;/But silence on each dale and mountain dwell,/Whilst Willy bids his friend and joy farewell./..."></div> </div> </div>

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