<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341117" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Mrs. M. B. On Her Birthday</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh be thou blest with all that Heav'n can send,<br>Long Health, long Youth, long Pleasure, and a Friend:<br>Not with those Toys the female world admire,<br>Riches that vex, and Vanities that tire.<br>With added years if Life bring nothing new,<br>But, like a Sieve, let ev'ry blessing thro',<br>Some joy still lost, as each vain year runs o'er,<br>And all we gain, some sad Reflection more;<br>Is that a Birth-Day? 'tis alas! too clear,<br>'Tis but the funeral of the former year. <br>Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content,<br>And the gay Conscience of a life well spent,<br>Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace.<br>Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.<br>Let day improve on day, and year on year,<br>Without a Pain, a Trouble, or a Fear;<br>Till Death unfelt that tender frame destroy,<br>In some soft Dream, or Extasy of joy,<br>Peaceful sleep out the Sabbath of the Tomb,<br>And wake to Raptures in a Life to come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alexander+Pope">Alexander Pope</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=341117" data-title="To Mrs. M. B. On Her Birthday de Alexander Pope" data-description="Oh be thou blest with all that Heav'n can send, Long Health, long Youth, long Pleasure, and a Friend: Not with those Toys the female world admire, Riches that vex, and Vanities that tire. With added years if Life bring nothing new, But, like a Sie..."></div> </div> </div>

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