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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345330" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Shepherd And The Calm</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soothing his Passions with a warb'ling Sound, <br>A Shepherd-Swain lay stretch'd upon the Ground;<br>Whilst all were mov'd, who their Attention lent,<br>Or with the Harmony in Chorus went,<br>To something less than Joy, yet more than dull Content. <br>(Between which two Extreams true Pleasure lies, <br>O'er-run by Fools, unreach'd-at by the Wise )<br>But yet, a fatal Prospect to the Sea<br>Wou'd often draw his greedy Sight away. <br>He saw the Barques unlading on the Shore, <br>And guess'd their Wealth, then scorn'd his little Store.<br>Then wou'd that Little lose, or else wou'd make it more. <br>To Merchandize converted is the Fold,<br>The Bag, the Bottle, and the Hurdles sold;<br>The Dog was chang'd away, the pretty Skell<br>Whom he had fed, and taught, and lov'd so well. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>In vain the Phillis wept, which heretofore<br>Receiv'd his Presents, and his Garlands wore. <br>False and upbraided, he forsakes the Downs,<br>Nor courts her Smiles, nor fears the Ocean's Frowns. <br>For smooth it lay, as if one single Wave<br>Made all the Sea, nor Winds that Sea cou'd heave; <br>Which blew no more than might his Sails supply:<br>Clear was the Air below, and Phoebus laugh'd on high.<br>With this Advent'rer ev'ry thing combines,<br>And Gold to Gold his happy Voyage joins; <br>But not so prosp'rous was the next Essay, <br>For rugged Blasts encounter'd on the way, <br>Scarce cou'd the Men escape, the Deep had all their Prey. <br>Our broken Merchant in the Wreck was thrown<br>Upon those Lands, which once had been his own; <br>Where other Flocks now pastur'd on the Grass, <br>And other Corydons had woo'd his Lass. <br>A Servant, for small Profits, there he turns, <br>Yet thrives again, and less and less he mourns; <br>Re-purchases in time th'abandon'd Sheep, <br>Which sad Experience taught him now to keep. <br>When from that very Bank, one Halcyon Day, <br>On which he lean'd, when tempted to the Sea, <br>He notes a Calm; the Winds and Waves were still, <br>And promis'd what the Winds nor Waves fulfill, <br>A settl'd Quiet, and Conveyance sure, <br>To him that Wealth, by Traffick, wou'd procure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the rough part the Shepherd now performs,<br>Reviles the Cheat, and at the Flatt'ry storms. <br>Ev'n thus (quoth he) you seem'd all Rest and Ease, <br>You sleeping Tempests, you untroubl'd Seas, <br>That ne'er to be forgot, that luckless Hour, <br>In which I put my Fortunes in your Pow'r; <br>Quitting my slender, but secure Estate, <br>My undisturb'd Repose, my sweet Retreat, <br>For Treasures which you ravish'd in a Day,<br>But swept my Folly, with my Goods, away. <br>Then smile no more, nor these false Shews employ,<br>Thou momentary Calm, thou fleeting Joy; <br>No more on me shall these fair Signs prevail, <br>Some other Novice may be won to Sail, <br>Give me a certain Fate in the obscurest Vale.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Kingsmill+Finch">Anne Kingsmill Finch</a><div class=q>
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A Shepherd-Swain lay stretch'd upon the Ground;
Whilst all were mov'd, who their Attention lent,
Or with the Harmony in Chorus went,
To something less than Joy, yet more than dull Content. 
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