<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=454968" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Complaint</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AWAY! away! <br>Tempt me no more, insidious Love: <br>Thy soothing sway <br>Long did my youthful bosom prove: <br>At length thy treason is discern'd, <br>At length some dear-bought caution earn'd: <br>Away! nor hope my riper age to move. <br> <br>I know, I see <br>Her merit. Needs it now be shown, <br>Alas! to me? <br>How often, to myself unknown, <br>The graceful, gentle, virtuous maid <br>Have I admired! How often said-- <br>What joy to call a heart like hers one's own! <br> <br>But, flattering god, <br>O squanderer of content and ease <br>In thy abode <br>Will care's rude lesson learn to please? <br>O say, deceiver, hast thou won <br>Proud Fortune to attend thy throne, <br>Or placed thy friends above her stern decrees?</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=454968" data-title="The Complaint de Mark Akenside" data-description="AWAY! away! Tempt me no more, insidious Love: Thy soothing sway Long did my youthful bosom prove: At length thy treason is discern'd, At length some dear-bought caution earn'd: Away! nor hope my riper age to move. I know, I see Her merit..."></div> </div> </div>

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