<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390835" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Invitation To Maecenas</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear, noble friend! a virgin cask<br>Of wine solicits your attention;<br>And roses fair, to deck your hair,<br>And things too numerous to mention.<br>So tear yourself awhile away<br>From urban turmoil, pride, and splendor,<br>And deign to share what humble fare<br>And sumptuous fellowship I tender.<br>The sweet content retirement brings<br>Smoothes out the ruffled front of kings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The evil planets have combined<br>To make the weather hot and hotter;<br>By parboiled streams the shepherd dreams<br>Vainly of ice-cream soda-water.<br>And meanwhile you, defying heat,<br>With patriotic ardor ponder<br>On what old Rome essays at home,<br>And what her heathen do out yonder.<br>Maecenas, no such vain alarm<br>Disturbs the quiet of this farm!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">God in His providence obscures<br>The goal beyond this vale of sorrow,<br>And smiles at men in pity when<br>They seek to penetrate the morrow.<br>With faith that all is for the best,<br>Let's bear what burdens are presented,<br>That we shall say, let come what may,<br>'We die, as we have lived, contented!<br>Ours is to-day; God's is the rest,--<br>He doth ordain who knoweth best.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dame Fortune plays me many a prank.<br>When she is kind, oh, how I go it!<br>But if again she's harsh,--why, then<br>I am a very proper poet!<br>When favoring gales bring in my ships,<br>I hie to Rome and live in clover;<br>Elsewise I steer my skiff out here,<br>And anchor till the storm blows over.<br>Compulsory virtue is the charm<br>Of life upon the Sabine farm!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eugene+Field">Eugene Field</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=390835" data-title="An Invitation To Maecenas de Eugene Field" data-description="Dear, noble friend! a virgin cask Of wine solicits your attention; And roses fair, to deck your hair, And things too numerous to mention. So tear yourself awhile away From urban turmoil, pride, and splendor, And deign to share what humble fare And..."></div> </div> </div>

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