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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409318" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The World</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1 I saw Eternity the other night,<br>2 Like a great ring of pure and endless light,<br>3 All calm, as it was bright;<br>4 And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years,<br>5 Driv'n by the spheres<br>6 Like a vast shadow mov'd; in which the world<br>7 And all her train were hurl'd.<br>8 The doting lover in his quaintest strain<br>9 Did there complain;<br>10 Near him, his lute, his fancy, and his flights,<br>11 Wit's sour delights,<br>12 With gloves, and knots, the silly snares of pleasure,<br>13 Yet his dear treasure<br>14 All scatter'd lay, while he his eyes did pour<br>15 Upon a flow'r.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">16 The darksome statesman hung with weights and woe,<br>17 Like a thick midnight-fog mov'd there so slow,<br>18 He did not stay, nor go;<br>19 Condemning thoughts (like sad eclipses) scowl<br>20 Upon his soul,<br>21 And clouds of crying witnesses without<br>22 Pursued him with one shout.<br>23 Yet digg'd the mole, and lest his ways be found,<br>24 Work'd under ground,<br>25 Where he did clutch his prey; but one did see<br>26 That policy;<br>27 Churches and altars fed him; perjuries<br>28 Were gnats and flies;<br>29 It rain'd about him blood and tears, but he<br>30 Drank them as free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">31 The fearful miser on a heap of rust<br>32 Sate pining all his life there, did scarce trust<br>33 His own hands with the dust,<br>34 Yet would not place one piece above, but lives<br>35 In fear of thieves;<br>36 Thousands there were as frantic as himself,<br>37 And hugg'd each one his pelf;<br>38 The downright epicure plac'd heav'n in sense,<br>39 And scorn'd pretence,<br>40 While others, slipp'd into a wide excess,<br>41 Said little less;<br>42 The weaker sort slight, trivial wares enslave,<br>43 Who think them brave;<br>44 And poor despised Truth sate counting by<br>45 Their victory.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">46 Yet some, who all this while did weep and sing,<br>47 And sing, and weep, soar'd up into the ring;<br>48 But most would use no wing.<br>49 O fools (said I) thus to prefer dark night<br>50 Before true light,<br>51 To live in grots and caves, and hate the day<br>52 Because it shews the way,<br>53 The way, which from this dead and dark abode<br>54 Leads up to God,<br>55 A way where you might tread the sun, and be<br>56 More bright than he.<br>57 But as I did their madness so discuss<br>58 One whisper'd thus,<br>59 &quot;This ring the Bridegroom did for none provide,<br>60 But for his bride.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Vaughan">Henry Vaughan</a><div class=q>
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2 Like a great ring of pure and endless light,
3 All calm, as it was bright;
4 And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years,
5 Driv'n by the spheres
6 Like a vast shadow mov'd; in which the world
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