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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344364" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Thoughts in a Garden</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">HOW vainly men themselves amaze <br>To win the palm, the oak, or bays, <br>And their uncessant labours see <br>Crown'd from some single herb or tree, <br>Whose short and narrow-verged shade <br>Does prudently their toils upbraid; <br>While all the flowers and trees do close <br>To weave the garlands of repose! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fair Quiet, have I found thee here, <br>And Innocence thy sister dear? <br>Mistaken long, I sought you then <br>In busy companies of men: <br>Your sacred plants, if here below, <br>Only among the plants will grow: <br>Society is all but rude <br>To this delicious solitude. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No white nor red was ever seen <br>So amorous as this lovely green. <br>Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, <br>Cut in these trees their mistress' name: <br>Little, alas! they know or heed <br>How far these beauties hers exceed! <br>Fair trees! wheres'e'er your barks I wound, <br>No name shall but your own be found. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When we have run our passions' heat, <br>Love hither makes his best retreat: <br>The gods, that mortal beauty chase, <br>Still in a tree did end their race; <br>Apollo hunted Daphne so <br>Only that she might laurel grow; <br>And Pan did after Syrinx speed <br>Not as a nymph, but for a reed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What wondrous life in this I lead! <br>Ripe apples drop about my head; <br>The luscious clusters of the vine <br>Upon my mouth do crush their wine; <br>The nectarine and curious peach <br>Into my hands themselves do reach; <br>Stumbling on melons, as I pass, <br>Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less <br>Withdraws into its happiness; <br>The mind, that ocean where each kind <br>Does straight its own resemblance find; <br>Yet it creates, transcending these, <br>Far other worlds, and other seas; <br>Annihilating all that 's made <br>To a green thought in a green shade. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here at the fountain's sliding foot, <br>Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, <br>Casting the body's vest aside, <br>My soul into the boughs does glide; <br>There, like a bird, it sits and sings, <br>Then whets and combs its silver wings, <br>And, till prepared for longer flight, <br>Waves in its plumes the various light. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such was that happy Garden-state <br>While man there walk'd without a mate: <br>After a place so pure and sweet, <br>What other help could yet be meet! <br>But 'twas beyond a mortal's share <br>To wander solitary there: <br>Two paradises 'twere in one, <br>To live in Paradise alone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How well the skilful gard'ner drew <br>Of flowers and herbs this dial new! <br>Where, from above, the milder sun <br>Does through a fragrant zodiac run: <br>And, as it works, th' industrious bee <br>Computes its time as well as we. <br>How could such sweet and wholesome hours <br>Be reckon'd, but with herbs and flowers!</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>
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To win the palm, the oak, or bays, 
And their uncessant labours see 
Crown'd from some single herb or tree, 
Whose short and narrow-verged shade 
Does prudently their toils upbraid; 
While all the flowers and trees..."></div>
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