<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371698" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: On Comparison</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Compare ’tween nearly equal personnel, <br>Who art almost alike in every way; <br>Compare you can’t a devil with angel<br>Or darkness with sunlight nor night with day! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Equate not ocean vast with small a sea; <br>The brine with sweet-smelling Rose essence; <br>How can a giant’s girth and property, <br>Ev’r match a dwarf and sense equal non-sense? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Banyan-tree has mighty growth to make; <br>A shrub remains always a plant so small; <br>No one compares a puddle with a lake: <br>A pigmy horse with giraffe’s stature tall! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two things of nearly similar proportions<br>Can be compared in akin situations.<br>Copyright by Dr John Celes 7-29-2000</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</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=371698" data-title="Sonnet: On Comparison de John Celes" data-description="Compare ’tween nearly equal personnel, Who art almost alike in every way; Compare you can’t a devil with angel Or darkness with sunlight nor night with day! Equate not ocean vast with small a sea; The brine with sweet-smelling Rose essenc..."></div> </div> </div>

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