<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447617" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sultana's Remonstrance</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">IT suits thee well to weep,<br>As thou lookest on the fair land,<br>Whose sceptre thou hast held<br>With less than woman's hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On yon bright city gaze,<br>With its white and marble halls,<br>The glory of its lofty towers,<br>The strength of its proud walls.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And look to yonder palace,<br>With its garden of the rose,<br>With its groves and silver fountains,<br>Fit for a king's repose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is weeping in that city,<br>And a cry of woe and shame,<br>There's a whisper of dishonour,<br>And that whisper is thy name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the stranger's feast is spread,<br>But it is no feast of thine;<br>In thine own halls accursed lips<br>Drain the forbidden wine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And aged men are in the streets,<br>Who mourn their length of days,<br>And young knights stand with folded arms,<br>And eyes they dare not raise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is not one whose blood was not<br>As the waves of ocean free,-- <br>Their fathers died for thy fathers,<br>They would have died for thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weep not, 'tis mine to weep,<br>That ever thou wert born,<br>Alas, that all a mother's love<br>Is lost in a queen's scorn!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet weep, thou less than woman, weep,<br>Those tears become thine eye,--<br>It suits thee well to weep the land<br>For which thou daredst not die.*</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Letitia+Elizabeth+Landon">Letitia Elizabeth Landon</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=447617" data-title="The Sultana's Remonstrance de Letitia Elizabeth Landon" data-description="IT suits thee well to weep, As thou lookest on the fair land, Whose sceptre thou hast held With less than woman's hand. On yon bright city gaze, With its white and marble halls, The glory of its lofty towers, The strength of its proud walls. And..."></div> </div> </div>

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