<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431490" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Written at Lovere, October, 1736</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If age and sickness, poverty and pain, <br>Should each assault me with alternate plagues, <br>I know mankind is destin'd to complain, <br>And I submit to torment and fatigues. <br>The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, <br>With patience suffers unexpected rain; <br>He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, <br>And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain. <br>But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, <br>If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lady+Mary+Wortley+Montagu">Lady Mary Wortley Montagu</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=431490" data-title="Written at Lovere, October, 1736 de Lady Mary Wortley Montagu" data-description="If age and sickness, poverty and pain, Should each assault me with alternate plagues, I know mankind is destin'd to complain, And I submit to torment and fatigues. The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected r..."></div> </div> </div>

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