<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=424670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Artificial Verse - Parody William Cowper and Lucianus- Artificial Beauty</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You give your verse a prosy st[r]ain, <br>with stress complete the air, <br>but vain attempts too often strain<br>and stress is in the air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those discords mock your daily toil, <br>no editors efface them, <br>and as blank lines from blank uncoil<br>its difficult to face them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An art so fruitless then forsake –<br>which though you’d fain excel in –<br>you never may contrive to make<br>both form and sense flow well in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">8 December 1991</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</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=424670" data-title="Artificial Verse - Parody William Cowper and Lucianus- Artificial Beauty de Jonathan Robin" data-description="You give your verse a prosy st[r]ain, with stress complete the air, but vain attempts too often strain and stress is in the air. Those discords mock your daily toil, no editors efface them, and as blank lines from blank uncoil its difficult t..."></div> </div> </div>

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