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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455897" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Man the Monarch</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Amaz'd we read of Nature's early Throes<br>How the fair Heav'ns and pond'rous Earth arose:<br>How blooming Trees unplanted first began;<br>And Beasts submissive to their Tyrant, Man:<br>To Man, invested with despotic Sway,<br>While his mute Brethren tremble and obey;<br>Till Heav'n beheld him insolently vain,<br>And checked the Limits of his haughty Reign.<br>Then from their Lord, the rude Deserters fly,<br>And, grinning back, his fruitless Rage defy;<br>Pards, Tygers, Wolves, to gloomy Shades retire,<br>And Mountain-Goats in purer Gales respire.<br>To humble Valleys, where soft Flowers blow,<br>And fatt'ning Streams in crystal Mazes flow,<br>Full of new Life, the untam'd Coursers run,<br>And roll, and wanton, in the chearful Sun;<br>Round their gay Hearts the dancing Spirits rise,<br>And Rouse the Lightnings in their rolling Eyes:<br>To cragged Rocks destructive Serpents glide,<br>Whose mossy Crannies hide their speckled Pride;<br>And monstrous Whales on foamy Billows ride.<br>Then joyful Birds ascend their native Sky:<br>But where! ah! where, shall helpless Woman fly?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here smiling Nature brought her choicest Stores,<br>And roseat Beauty on her Fav'rite pours:<br>Pleas'd with her Labour, the officious Dame<br>With-held no Grace would deck the rising Frame.<br>Then view'd her Work, and view'd, and smil'd again,<br>And kindly whisper'd, Daughter, live, and reign.<br>But now the Matron mounrs her latest Care,<br>And sees the Sorrows of her darling Fair;<br>Beholds a Wretch, whom she design'd a Queen,<br>And weeps that e'er she form'd the weak Machine,<br>In vain she boasts her Lip of scarlet Dyes,<br>Cheeks like the Morning, and far-beaming Eyes;<br>Her Neck refulgent--fair and feeble Arms,<br>A Set of useless and neglected Charms.<br>She suffers Hardship with afflictive Moans:<br>Small Tasks of Labour suit her slender Bones.<br>Beneath a Load her weary Shoulders yield,<br>Nor can her Fingers grasp teh sounding Shield;<br>She sees and trembles as approaching Harms,<br>And Fear and Grief destroy her fading Charms.<br>Then her pale Lips no pearly Teeth disclose,<br>And Time's rude Sickle cuts the yielding Rose.<br>Thus wretched Woman's short-liv'd Merit dies;<br>In vain to Wisdom's sacred Help she flies;<br>Or sparkling Wit but lends a feeble Aid:<br>'Tis all Delirium from a wrinkled Maid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A tattling Dame, no matter where, or who;<br>Me it concerns not--and it need not you;<br>Once told this Story to the listening Muse,<br>Which we, as now it serves our Turn, shall use.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When our Grandsire+ nam'd the feather'd Kind,<br>Pond'ring their Natures in his careful Mind,<br>'Twas then, if on our Author we rely,<br>He view'd his Consort with an envious Eye;<br>Greedy of Pow'r, he hugg'd he tott'ring Throne;<br>And, better to secure his doubtful Rule,<br>Roll'd his wise Eye-balls, and pronounc'd her Fool.<br>The regal Blood to distant Ages runs:<br>Sires, Brothers, Husbands, and commanding Sons,<br>The Sceptre claim; and ev'ry Cottage brings<br>A long Succession of Domestic Kings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Leapor">Mary Leapor</a><div class=q>
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How the fair Heav'ns and pond'rous Earth arose:
How blooming Trees unplanted first began;
And Beasts submissive to their Tyrant, Man:
To Man, invested with despotic Sway,
While his mute Brethren tremble and ..."></div>
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