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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396344" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Affliction (I)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When first 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 serv'd,<br> Where joys my fellows were?<br> Thus argu'd into hopes, my thoughts reserv'd<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> &quot;Sicknesses cleave my bones;<br> Consuming agues dwell in ev'ry vein,<br> And tune my breath to groans.&quot;<br> Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believ'd,<br> Till grief did tell me roundly, that I liv'd.</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 ling'ring 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 threaten'd oft the siege to raise,<br> Not simp'ring all mine age,<br> Thou often didst with academic praise<br> Melt and dissolve my rage.<br> I took thy sweet'ned 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 then I 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.

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