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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355218" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ape</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">An Ape is but a trivial beast,<br>Men count it light and vain;<br>But I would let them have their thoughts,<br>To have my Ape again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>To love a beast in any sort<br>Is no great sign of grace;<br>But I have loved a flouting Ape's<br>'Bove any lady's face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I have known the power of two fair eyes,<br>In smile or else in glance,<br>And how (for I a lover was)<br>They make the spirits dance;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But I would give two hundred smiles<br>Of them that fairest be,<br>For one look of my staring Ape<br>That used to stare on me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>This beast, this Ape, it had a face-<br>If face it might be styled-<br>Sometimes it was a staring Ape,<br>Sometimes a beauteous child-</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>A Negro flat-a Pagod squat,<br>Cast in a Chinese mould-<br>And then it was a Cherub's face<br>Made of the beaten gold!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But Time, that's meddling, meddling still,<br>And always altering things-<br>And what's already at the best<br>To alteration brings,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>That turns the sweetest buds to flowers,<br>And chops and changes toys,<br>That breaks up dreams, and parts old friends,<br>And still commutes our joys-</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Has changed away my Ape at last<br>And in its place conveyed,<br>Thinking therewith to cheat my sight,<br>A fresh and blooming maid!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And fair to sight is she-and still<br>Each day doth sightlier grow,<br>Upon the ruins of the Ape,<br>My ancient playfellow!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The tale of Sphinx, and Theban jests<br>I true in me perceive;<br>I suffer riddles; death from dark<br>Enigmas I receive:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Whilst a hid being I pursue,<br>That lurks in a new shape,<br>My darling in herself I miss,<br>And, in my ape, the ape.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">1806.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Lamb">Charles Lamb</a><div class=q>
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Men count it light and vain;
But I would let them have their thoughts,
To have my Ape again.


To love a beast in any sort
Is no great sign of grace;
But I have loved a flouting Ape's
'Bove any lady's face.


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