<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=454948" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode VII: On The Use Of Poetry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.<br>Not for themselves did human kind<br>Contrive the parts by heaven assign'd<br>On life's wide scene to play:<br>Not Scipio's force, nor Cæsar's skill<br>Can conquer glory's arduous hill,<br>If fortune close the way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.<br>Yet still the self-depending soul,<br>Though last and least in fortune's roll,<br>His proper sphere commands;<br>And knows what nature's seal bestow'd,<br>And sees, before the throne of God,<br>The rank in which he stands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.<br>Who train'd by laws the future age,<br>Who rescu'd nations from the rage<br>Of partial, factious power,<br>My heart with distant homage views;<br>Content if thou, celestial Muse,<br>Did'st rule my natal hour.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV. <br>Nor far beneath the hero's feet,<br>Nor from the legislator's seat<br>Stands far remote the bard.<br>Though not with public terrors crown'd,<br>Yet wider shall his rule be found,<br>More lasting his award.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V.<br>Lycurgus fashion'd Sparta's fame,<br>And Pompey to the Roman name<br>Gave universal sway:<br>Where are they?—Homer's reverend page<br>Holds empire to the thirtieth age,<br>And tongues and climes obey.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VI.<br>And thus when William's acts divine<br>No longer shall from Bourbon's line<br>Draw one vindictive vow;<br>When Sidney shall with Cato rest,<br>And Russel move the patriot's breast<br>No more than Brutus now;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VII.<br>Yet then shall Shakespeare's powerful art<br>O'er every passion, every heart,<br>Confirm his awful throne:<br>Tyrants shall bow before his laws;<br>And freedom's, glory's, virtue's cause,<br>Their dread assertor own.</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=454948" data-title="Ode VII: On The Use Of Poetry de Mark Akenside" data-description="I. Not for themselves did human kind Contrive the parts by heaven assign'd On life's wide scene to play: Not Scipio's force, nor Cæsar's skill Can conquer glory's arduous hill, If fortune close the way. II. Yet still the self-depending soul, Tho..."></div> </div> </div>

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