<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396179" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet To George The Fourth, On The Repeal Of Lord Edward Fitzgerald's Forfeiture</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To be the father of the fatherless,<br>To stretch the hand from the throne's height, and raise<br>His offspring, who expired in other days<br>To make thy sire's sway by a kingdom less,--<br>This is to be a monarch, and repress<br>Envy into unutterable praise.<br>Dismiss thy guard, and trust thee to such traits,<br>For who would lift a hand, except to bless?<br>Were it not easy, sir, and is't not sweet<br>To make thyself beloved? and to be<br>Omnipotent by mercy's means? for thus<br>Thy sovereignty would grow but more complete:<br>A despot thou, and yet thy people free,<br>And by the heart, not hand, enslaving us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Byron">Byron</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=396179" data-title="Sonnet To George The Fourth, On The Repeal Of Lord Edward Fitzgerald's Forfeiture de Byron" data-description="To be the father of the fatherless, To stretch the hand from the throne's height, and raise His offspring, who expired in other days To make thy sire's sway by a kingdom less,-- This is to be a monarch, and repress Envy into unutterable praise. Di..."></div> </div> </div>

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