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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391851" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Vashti</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She leaned her head upon her hand <br>And heard the King's decree -- <br>&quot;My lords are feasting in my halls; <br>Bid Vashti come to me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;I've shown the treasures of my house, <br>My costly jewels rare, <br>But with the glory of her eyes <br>No rubies can compare. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Adorn'd and crown'd I'd have her come, <br>With all her queenly grace, <br>And, 'mid my lords and mighty men, <br>Unveil her lovely face. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Each gem that sparkles in my crown, <br>Or glitters on my throne, <br>Grows poor and pale when she appears, <br>My beautiful, my own!&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All waiting stood the chamberlains <br>To hear the Queen's reply. <br>They saw her cheek grow deathly pale, <br>But light flash'd to her eye: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Go, tell the King,&quot; she proudly said, <br>&quot;That I am Persia's Queen, <br>And by his crowds of merry men <br>I never will be seen. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;I'll take the crown from off my head <br>And tread it 'neath my feet, <br>Before their rude and careless gaze <br>My shrinking eyes shall meet. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;A queen unveil'd before the crowd! -- <br>Upon each lip my name! -- <br>Why, Persia's women all would blush <br>And weep for Vashti's shame! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Go back!&quot; she cried, and waved her hand, <br>And grief was in her eye: <br>&quot;Go, tell the King,&quot; she sadly said, <br>&quot;That I would rather die.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They brought her message to the King; <br>Dark flash'd his angry eye; <br>'Twas as the lightning ere the storm <br>Hath swept in fury by. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then bitterly outspoke the King, <br>Through purple lips of wrath -- <br>&quot;What shall be done to her who dares <br>To cross your monarch's path?&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then spake his wily counsellors -- <br>&quot;O King of this fair land! <br>From distant Ind to Ethiop, <br>All bow to thy command. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;But if, before thy servants' eyes, <br>This thing they plainly see, <br>That Vashti doth not heed thy will <br>Nor yield herself to thee, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;The women, restive 'neath our rule, <br>Would learn to scorn our name, <br>And from her deed to us would come <br>Reproach and burning shame. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Then, gracious King, sign with thy hand <br>This stern but just decree, <br>That Vashti lay aside her crown, <br>Thy Queen no more to be.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She heard again the King's command, <br>And left her high estate; <br>Strong in her earnest womanhood, <br>She calmly met her fate, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And left the palace of the King, <br>Proud of her spotless name -- <br>A woman who could bend to grief, <br>But would not bow to shame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frances+Ellen+Watkins+Harper">Frances Ellen Watkins Harper</a><div class=q>
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And heard the King's decree -- 
&quot;My lords are feasting in my halls; 
Bid Vashti come to me. 

&quot;I've shown the treasures of my house, 
My costly jewels rare, 
But with the glory of her eyes 
No rubies ca..."></div>
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