<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=454918" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For a Column At Runnymede</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou, who the verdant plain dost traverse here<br> While Thames among his willows from thy view<br> Retires; O stranger, stay thee, and the scene<br> Around contemplate well. This is the place<br> Where England's ancient barons, clad in arms<br> And stern with conquest, from their tyrant king<br> (Then rendered tame) did challenge and secure<br> The charter of thy freedom. Pass not on<br> Till thou hast blest their memory, and paid<br> Those thanks which God appointed the reward<br> Of public virtue. And if chance thy home<br> Salute thee with a father's honour'd name,<br> Go, call thy sons: instruct them what a debt<br> They owe their ancestors; and make them swear<br> To pay it, by transmitting down entire<br> Those sacred rights to which themselves were born.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mark+Akenside">Mark Akenside</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=454918" data-title="For a Column At Runnymede de Mark Akenside" data-description="Thou, who the verdant plain dost traverse here While Thames among his willows from thy view Retires; O stranger, stay thee, and the scene Around contemplate well. This is the place Where England's ancient barons, clad in arms And stern with c..."></div> </div> </div>

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