<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421495" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Mr. H. Lawes on His Airs</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Harry, whose tuneful and well-measured song <br>First taught our English music how to span <br>Words with just note and accent, not to scan <br>With Midas’ ears, committing short and long, <br>Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng,<br>With praise enough for Envy to look wan; <br>To after age thou shalt be writ the man <br>That with smooth air couldst humour best our tongue. <br>Thou honour’st Verse, and Verse must lend her wing <br>To honour thee, the priest of Phœbus’ quire,<br>That tunest their happiest lines in hymn or story. <br>Dante shall give Fame leave to set thee higher <br>Than his Casella, whom he wooed to sing, <br>Met in the milder shades of Purgatory.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Milton">John Milton</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=421495" data-title="To Mr. H. Lawes on His Airs de John Milton" data-description="Harry, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan With Midas’ ears, committing short and long, Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, With praise en..."></div> </div> </div>

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