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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396291" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Affliction</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When thou didst entice to thee my heart, <br>I thought the service brave: <br>So many joys I writ down for my part, <br>Besides what I might have<br>Out of my stock of natural delights, <br>Augmented with thy gracious benefits.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I looked on thy furniture so fine, <br>And made it fine to me: <br>Thy glorious household-stuff did me entwine, <br>And 'tice me unto thee.<br>Such stars I counted mine: both heav'n and earth<br>Paid me my wages in a world of mirth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What pleasures could I want, whose King I served? <br>Where joys my fellows were? <br>Thus argu'd into hopes, my thoughts reserved <br>No place for grief or fear.<br>Therefore my sudden soul caught at the place, <br>And made her youth and fierceness seek thy face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At first thou gav'st me milk and sweetnesses; <br>I had my wish and way: <br>My days were straw'd with flow'rs and happiness; <br>There was no month but May.<br>But with my years sorrow did twist and grow, <br>And made a party unawares for woe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My flesh began unto my soul in pain, <br>Sicknesses cleave my bones; <br>Consuming agues dwell in ev'ry vein, <br>And tune my breath to groans.<br>Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, <br>Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I got health, thou took'st away my life, <br>And more; for my friends die: <br>My mirth and edge was lost; a blunted knife<br>Was of more use than I.<br>Thus thin and lean without a fence or friend, <br>I was blown through with ev'ry storm and wind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whereas my birth and spirit rather took<br>The way that takes the town; <br>Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, <br>And wrap me in a gown.<br>I was entangled in the world of strife, <br>Before I had the power to change my life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, for I threatened oft the siege to raise, <br>Not simpring all mine age, <br>Thou often didst with Academic praise<br>Melt and dissolve my rage.<br>I took thy sweetened pill, till I came where<br>I could not go away, nor persevere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet lest perchance I should too happy be<br>In my unhappiness, <br>Turning my purge to food, thou throwest me<br>Into more sicknesses.<br>Thus doth thy power cross-bias me; not making<br>Thine own gift good, yet me from my ways taking.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now I am here, what thou wilt do with me <br>None of my books will show: <br>I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; <br>For sure I then should grow<br>To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust<br>Her household to me, and I should be just.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet though thou troublest me, I must be meek; <br>In weakness must be stout.<br>Well, I will change the service, and go seek<br>Some other master out.<br>Ah my dear God! though I am clean forgot, <br>Let me not love thee, if I love thee not.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Herbert">George Herbert</a><div class=q>
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I thought the service brave: 
So many joys I writ down for my part, 
Besides what I might have
Out of my stock of natural delights, 
Augmented with thy gracious benefits.

I looked on thy furniture so fine..."></div>
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