<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426429" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Stella On Her Birth-Day, 1721-2</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">While, Stella, to your lasting praise<br>The Muse her annual tribute pays,<br>While I assign myself a task<br>Which you expect, but scorn to ask;<br>If I perform this task with pain,<br>Let me of partial fate complain;<br>You every year the debt enlarge,<br>I grow less equal to the charge:<br>In you each virtue brighter shines,<br>But my poetic vein declines;<br>My harp will soon in vain be strung,<br>And all your virtues left unsung.<br>For none among the upstart race<br>Of poets dare assume my place;<br>Your worth will be to them unknown,<br>They must have Stellas of their own;<br>And thus, my stock of wit decay'd,<br>I dying leave the debt unpaid,<br>Unless Delany, as my heir,<br>Will answer for the whole arrear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Swift">Jonathan Swift</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=426429" data-title="To Stella On Her Birth-Day, 1721-2 de Jonathan Swift" data-description="While, Stella, to your lasting praise The Muse her annual tribute pays, While I assign myself a task Which you expect, but scorn to ask; If I perform this task with pain, Let me of partial fate complain; You every year the debt enlarge, I grow les..."></div> </div> </div>

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