<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344358" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Mower Against Gardens</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Luxurious Man, to bring his Vice in use,<br>Did after him the World seduce:<br>And from the Fields the Flow'rs and Plants allure,<br>Where Nature was most plain and pure.<br>He first enclos'd within the Gardens square<br>A dead and standing pool of Air:<br>And a more luscious Earth for them did knead,<br>Which stupifi'd them while it fed.<br>The Pink grew then as double as his Mind;<br>The nutriment did change the kind.<br>With strange perfumes he did the Roses taint.<br>And Flow'rs themselves were taught to paint.<br>The Tulip, white, did for complexion seek;<br>And learn'd to interline its cheek:<br>Its Onion root they then so high did hold,<br>That one was for a Meadow sold.<br>Another World was search'd, through Oceans new,<br>To find the Marvel Of Peru.<br>And yet these Rarities might be allow'd,<br>To Man, that Sov'raign thing and proud;<br>Had he not dealt between the Bark and Tree,<br>Forbidden mixtures there to see.<br>No Plant now knew the Stock from which it came;<br>He grafts upon the Wild the Tame:<br>That the uncertain and adult'rate fruit<br>Might put the Palate in dispute.<br>His green Seraglio has its Eunuchs too;<br>Lest any Tyrant him out-doe.<br>And in the Cherry he does Nature vex,<br>To procreate without a Sex.<br>'Tis all enforc'd; the Fountain and the Grot;<br>While the sweet Fields do lye forgot:<br>Where willing Nature does to all dispence<br>A wild and fragrant Innocence:<br>And Fauns and Faryes do the Meadows till,<br>More by their presence then their skill.<br>Their Statues polish'd by some ancient hand,<br>May to adorn the Gardens stand:<br>But howso'ere the Figures do excel,<br>The Gods themselves with us do dwell.</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=344358" data-title="The Mower Against Gardens de Andrew Marvell" data-description="Luxurious Man, to bring his Vice in use, Did after him the World seduce: And from the Fields the Flow'rs and Plants allure, Where Nature was most plain and pure. He first enclos'd within the Gardens square A dead and standing pool of Air: And a mo..."></div> </div> </div>

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