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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415278" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Elegy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tired with the busy crowds, that all the day<br>Impatient throng where Folly's altars flame,<br>My languid powers dissolve with quick decay,<br>Till genial Sleep repair the sinking frame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>2</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hail, kind reviver! that canst lull the cares,<br>And every weary sense compose to rest,<br>Lighten the oppressive load which anguish bears,<br>And warm with hope the cold desponding breast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>3</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Touch'd by thy rod, from Power's majestic brow<br>Drops the gay plume; he pines a lowly clown;<br>And on the cold earth stretch'd, the son of Woe<br>Quaffs Pleasure's draught, and wears a fancied crown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>4</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When roused by thee, on boundless pinions borne,<br>Fancy to fairy scenes exults to rove,<br>Now scales the cliff gay-gleaming on the morn,<br>Now sad and silent treads the deepening grove;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>5</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or skims the main, and listens to the storms,<br>Marks the long waves roll far remote away;<br>Or, mingling with ten thousand glittering forms,<br>Floats on the gale, and basks in purest day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>6</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Haply, ere long, pierced by the howling blast,<br>Through dark and pathless deserts I shall roam,<br>Plunge down the unfathom'd deep, or shrink aghast<br>Where bursts the shrieking spectre from the tomb:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>7</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps loose Luxury's enchanting smile<br>Shall lure my steps to some romantic dale,<br>Where Mirth's light freaks the unheeded hours beguile,<br>And airs of rapture warble in the gale.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>8</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Instructive emblem of this mortal state!<br>Where scenes as various every hour arise<br>In swift succession, which the hand of Fate<br>Presents, then snatches from our wondering eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>9</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be taught, vain man, how fleeting all thy joys,<br>Thy boasted grandeur and thy glittering store:<br>Death comes, and all thy fancied bliss destroys;<br>Quick as a dream it fades, and is no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>10</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, sons of Sorrow! though the threatening storm<br>Of angry Fortune overhang awhile,<br>Let not her frowns your inward peace deform;<br>Soon happier days in happier climes shall smile.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>11</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through Earth's throng'd visions while we toss forlorn,<br>'Tis tumult all, and rage, and restless strife;<br>But these shall vanish like the dreams of morn,<br>When Death awakes us to immortal life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Beattie">James Beattie</a><div class=q>
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Tired with the busy crowds, that all the day
Impatient throng where Folly's altars flame,
My languid powers dissolve with quick decay,
Till genial Sleep repair the sinking frame.


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