<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391067" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To M.L. Gray,</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come, dear old friend, and with us twain<br>To calm Digentian groves repair;<br>The turtle coos his sweet refrain<br>And posies are a-blooming there;<br>And there the romping Sabine girls<br>Bind myrtle in their lustrous curls.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know a certain ilex-tree<br>Whence leaps a fountain cool and clear.<br>Its voices summon you and me;<br>Come, let us haste to share its cheer!<br>Methinks the rapturous song it sings<br>Should woo our thoughts from mortal things.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, good old friend, I charge thee well,<br>Watch thou my brother all the while,<br>Lest some fair Lydia cast her spell<br>Round him unschooled in female guile.<br>Those damsels have no charms for me;<br>Guard thou that brother,--I'll guard thee!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, lo, sweet friend! behold this cup,<br>Round which the garlands intertwine;<br>With Massic it is foaming up,<br>And we would drink to thee and thine.<br>And of the draught thou shalt partake,<br>Who lov'st us for our father's sake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hark you! from yonder Sabine farm<br>Echo the songs of long ago,<br>With power to soothe and grace to charm<br>What ills humanity may know;<br>With that sweet music in the air,<br>'T is Love and Summer everywhere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, though no grief consumes our lot<br>(Since all our lives have been discreet),<br>Come, in this consecrated spot,<br>Let's see if pagan cheer be sweet.<br>Now, then, the songs; but, first, more wine.<br>The gods be with you, friends of mine!</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=391067" data-title="To M.L. Gray, de Eugene Field" data-description="Come, dear old friend, and with us twain To calm Digentian groves repair; The turtle coos his sweet refrain And posies are a-blooming there; And there the romping Sabine girls Bind myrtle in their lustrous curls. I know a certain ilex-tree Whence..."></div> </div> </div>

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