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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=407970" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Complaint Of The Goddess Of The Glaciers To Doctor Darwin</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHILE o'er the Alpine cliffs I musing stray'd,<br>And gaz'd on nature, in her charms severe,<br>The last soft beam of parting day display'd<br>The Glacier-Goddess, on her crystal sphere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her sledgy car, with sparkling frost-work bright,<br>O'er the pellucid ice her snow-birds drew,<br>And on her fleecy robe's refracted light<br>The full-blown rose's vermeil colours threw.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Slow as she graceful lifts her misty veil,<br>Indignant griefs her mournful glance exprest,<br>And thus, in falt'ring tones, the vestal pale<br>Breath'd the deep sorrows of her beating breast:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Native of that green isle, where DARWIN waves<br>His magic wand o'er nature's vernal reign,<br>Her airy essence and her central caves,<br>Her fires electric, and her nereid train:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Go, tell him, stranger, had his muse explor'd<br>My realms, new marvels had enchain'd her eye;<br>Go, tell him, in my sunless fanes are stor'd<br>Treasures no vulgar glance shall e'er descry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Ye nymphs of fire! around your glowing brows<br>What lavish wreaths your poet loves to twine;<br>Know, partial bard! philosophy allows<br>That one bright chaplet might belong to mine!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Ah, why a vestal to a 'fiend' transform,<br>Bid to my steeps thy glitt'ring bands repair,<br>Direct with cruel aim their arrowy storm,<br>And chain a goddess to the 'northern bear?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Stay thy rash steps! my potent hand impels<br>The rushing avalanche to gulphs below!<br>I can transfix thee, numb'd, in icy cells,<br>Or shroud thee in unfathom'd folds of snow!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Come not in hostile garb!--with softer art,<br>With dearer power, my yielding spirit seize;<br>Wake thy rich lyre, and melt my gelid heart<br>With incense sweeter than the western breeze.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Thy muse shall mount my Lammer-Geyer's wing,<br>Pass o'er my untrod heights, with daring course,<br>While the cold genii of each new-born spring<br>For thee unlock the rivers' viewless source.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'For thee my sylphs, with tender care, shall mark<br>The pointless pathway of the secret rills,<br>And light with lambent ray the caverns dark,<br>Where chemic nature mystic wealth distils.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'For thee my sylphs in distant lands shall trace,<br>Where, far diffus'd, my vivifying powers<br>Awake, ungrateful bard, in blushing grace,<br>To life and love, awake thy wedded flowers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'For thee--but ah, my pensive form he flies<br>For nymphs of golden locks and florid hue!<br>No charms have snow-white tints, or azure eyes--'<br>She wept, and, folded in a cloud, withdrew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Helen+Maria+Williams">Helen Maria Williams</a><div class=q>
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And gaz'd on nature, in her charms severe,
The last soft beam of parting day display'd
The Glacier-Goddess, on her crystal sphere.

Her sledgy car, with sparkling frost-work bright,
O'er the pellucid ..."></div>
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