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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343087" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Moon and the Comet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This fact is clear....Both man and woman<br>Prize not what's good, but what's uncommon ;<br>And most delighted still they are,<br>Not with the excellent, but rare,....<br>I could of this give proofs most stable,<br>But, par exemple , take a fable.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'T was night....but still a mimic day<br>Shone softly forth from milky way;<br>For now the bright unclouded moon<br>'Was riding in her highest noon....'<br>Who, as she slowly sailed along,<br>Beheld a most unusual throng<br>With eyes upraised devoutly gazing,<br>And heard, &quot;Behold! see there! amazing!&quot;<br>&quot;What can this mean?&quot; dame Cynthia said,<br>&quot;Perhaps,&quot; and high she drew her head,<br>&quot;Perhaps that I to earth tonight<br>Shine with unwonted beauty bright;<br>And therefore mortals in amaze<br>Come crowding forth on me to gaze;&quot;<br>And then,....for heavenly beauties love,<br>Like earthly ones, applause to move,....<br>She stooped, within a lake below<br>To see how looked her sparkling brow:<br>And as her crescent she adjusted,<br>She thought, if mirrors might be trusted,<br>That night, so wondrous was her beauty,<br>To gaze on her was mortals' duty.<br>But O! sad fall to female pride!<br>She soon with wondering looks descried<br>'Twas not on her that eyes were turned;<br>For her no curious ardour burned;<br>At her no telescopes were aimed,<br>Nor wonder at her charms proclaimed;....<br>Some other idol now, she found,<br>Had fickle man in fetters bound;<br>And Cynthia was compelled to own,<br>Unseen her matchless beauty shone.<br>&quot;But what,&quot; she cried, &quot;thus rivals me?<br>I all the stars and planets see....<br>Orion has his belt in order;<br>Of Saturn's ring bright shines the border;<br>Mars sports his coat of reddest hue;<br>The Bear has put his horses to;....<br>But still, these sights so oft are seen,<br>There's nothing new in them I ween:<br>And after all I know the cry<br>Is, 'they are nought when I am by....'<br>'Tis strange; and I shall surely pout<br>Until I've found my rival out.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This said, she looked on every side<br>With eager looks of wounded pride,<br>And round with all the spite inspected<br>Of conscious beauty quite neglected;<br>When, lo! she saw with wondring breast,<br>Just twinkling in the northern west, <br>And dimly seen, since seen from far,<br>A rayless, misty, long-tailed star;<br>While homage from her charms was ravished,<br>To be on this poor Comet lavished!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">W--k--e, beware! Though amateurs,<br>And nobles, artists, connoisseurs,<br>Thy works admire, thy skill commend,<br>And smiling o'er thy canvass bend,<br>Thy powers will be no more respected,<br>Thy crowded easel soon neglected,<br>If ever artist should appear<br>(The comet of dame fashion's sphere,)<br>Who works to wondering London shows<br>Not done with fingers, but with....toes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Amelia+Opie">Amelia Opie</a><div class=q>
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Prize not what's good, but what's uncommon ;
And most delighted still they are,
Not with the excellent, but rare,....
I could of this give proofs most stable,
But, par exemple , take a fable.

'T was night...."></div>
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