<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344318" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Garden, Written after the Civil Wars</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">SEE how the flowers, as at parade, <br>Under their colours stand display'd: <br>Each regiment in order grows, <br>That of the tulip, pink, and rose. <br>But when the vigilant patrol <br>Of stars walks round about the pole, <br>Their leaves, that to the stalks are curl'd, <br>Seem to their staves the ensigns furl'd. <br>Then in some flower's beloved hut <br>Each bee, as sentinel, is shut, <br>And sleeps so too; but if once stirr'd, <br>She runs you through, nor asks the word. <br>O thou, that dear and happy Isle, <br>The garden of the world erewhile, <br>Thou Paradise of the four seas <br>Which Heaven planted us to please, <br>But, to exclude the world, did guard <br>With wat'ry if not flaming sword; <br>What luckless apple did we taste <br>To make us mortal and thee waste! <br>Unhappy! shall we never more <br>That sweet militia restore, <br>When gardens only had their towers, <br>And all the garrisons were flowers; <br>When roses only arms might bear, <br>And men did rosy garlands wear?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Marvell">Andrew Marvell</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=344318" data-title="A Garden, Written after the Civil Wars de Andrew Marvell" data-description="SEE how the flowers, as at parade, Under their colours stand display'd: Each regiment in order grows, That of the tulip, pink, and rose. But when the vigilant patrol Of stars walks round about the pole, Their leaves, that to the stalks are c..."></div> </div> </div>

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