<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416338" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Incomparable Soporific Doctor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweet, sleeky Doctor! dear pacific soul! <br>Lay at the beef, and suck the vital bowl!<br>Still let the involving smoke around thee fly,<br>And broad-looked dulness settle in thine eye.<br>Ah! soft in down these dainty limbs repose,<br>And in the very lap of slumber doze;<br>But chiefly on the lazy day of grace,<br>Call forth the lambent glories of thy face;<br>If aught the thoughts of dinner can prevail, <br>And sure the Sunday's dinner cannot fail, <br>To the thin church in sleepy pomp proceed,<br>And lean on the lethargic book thy head;<br>Those eyes wipe often with the hallowed lawn,<br>Profoundly nod, immeasurably yawn;<br>Slow let the prayers by thy meek lips be sung,<br>Nor let thy thoughts be distanced by thy tongue; <br>If e'er the lingerers are within a call, <br>Or if on prayers thou deign'st to think at all.<br>Yet - only yet - the swimming head we bend;<br>But when serene, the pulpit you ascend,<br>Through every joint a gentle horror creeps, <br>And round you the consenting audience sleeps.<br>So when an ass with sluggish front appears,<br>The horses start, and prick their quivering ears;<br>But soon as ere the sage is heard to bray,<br>The fields all thunder, and they bound away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Thomson">James Thomson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416338" data-title="The Incomparable Soporific Doctor de James Thomson" data-description="Sweet, sleeky Doctor! dear pacific soul! Lay at the beef, and suck the vital bowl! Still let the involving smoke around thee fly, And broad-looked dulness settle in thine eye. Ah! soft in down these dainty limbs repose, And in the very lap of slu..."></div> </div> </div>

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