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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Perverted Village After Goldsmith</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweet Auburn! liveliest village of the plain,<br>Where Health and Slander welcome every train,<br>Whence smiling innocence, its tribute paid,<br>Retires in terror, wounded and dismayed<br>Dear lovely bowers of gossip and disease,<br>Whose climate cures us that thy dames may tease,<br>How often have I knelt upon thy green<br>And prayed for death, to mitigate their spleen!<br>How often have I paused on every charm<br>With mingled admiration and alarm<br>The brook that runs by many a scandal-mill,<br>The church whose pastor groans upon the grill,<br>The cowthorn bush with seats beneath the shade,<br>Where hearts are struck and reputations flayed;<br>How often wished thine idle wives, some day,<br>Might more at whist, less at the devil, play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unblest retirement! ere my life's decline<br>(Killed by detraction) may I witness thine.<br>How happy she who, shunning shades like these,<br>Finds in a wolf-den greater peace and ease;<br>Who quits the place whence truth did earlier fly,<br>And rather than come back prefers to die!<br>For her no jealous maids renounce their sleep,<br>Contriving malices to make her weep;<br>No iron-faced dames her character debate<br>And spurn imploring mercy from the gate;<br>But down she lies to a more peaceful end,<br>For wolves do not calumniate, but rend<br>Sinks piecemeal to their maws, a willing prey,<br>While resignation lubricates the way,<br>And all her prospects brighten at the last:<br>To wolves, not women, an approved repast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a><div class=q>
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Where Health and Slander welcome every train,
Whence smiling innocence, its tribute paid,
Retires in terror, wounded and dismayed
Dear lovely bowers of gossip and disease,
Whose climate cures us that t..."></div>
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