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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455507" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Peacock.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once Juno's Bird (as Authors say)<br>Was seiz'd on by some Birds of Prey:<br>They pluck'd his Feathers, one by one,<br>Till all his useful Plumes were gone;<br>Stript him of ev'ry thing beside;<br>But left his Train, to please his Pride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some other Birds admir'd to see,<br>He tamely bore such Injury;<br>And often on his Patience jok'd--<br>He cry'd--They must not be provok'd:<br>I'm in their Pow'r, nor shall debate,<br>But yield to my unhappy Fate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet in this Plight would he resort,<br>To where the Eagle kept his Court:<br>For, tho' oppress'd, he still was proud<br>To make his Bows among the Croud.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Eagle, gracious, saw him there;<br>Which envious Courtiers could not bear,<br>Well knowing, should he tread that Soil,<br>He would in time put in for Spoil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As Tameness Injuries provokes,<br>In Birds, as well as mortal Folks;<br>The Peacock they assault again,<br>And strip him of his glitt'ring Train.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enrag'd at this, he stamp'd and tore,<br>And quoted Precedents a Score,<br>That Peacocks ever were allow'd<br>To shew their Beauty to the Croud.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At this the haughty Courtiers sneer,<br>And cry, What Bus'ness have you here?<br>He had a Right, they plainly saw;<br>But let him know, That Pow'r is Law.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At length a Pheasant standing by,<br>Beheld him with a pitying Eye:<br>And said, You now begin too late<br>To stem the Torrent of your Fate:<br>Yet are you not of all bereft;<br>For still a fair Retreat is left:<br>Why will you here neglected roam,<br>When you might be rever'd at home?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Barber">Mary Barber</a><div class=q>
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Was seiz'd on by some Birds of Prey:
They pluck'd his Feathers, one by one,
Till all his useful Plumes were gone;
Stript him of ev'ry thing beside;
But left his Train, to please his Pride.

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