<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457090" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Simile</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear Thomas, didst thou never pop<br>Thy head into a tin-man's shop?<br>There, Thomas, didst thou never see<br>('Tis but by way of simile)<br>A squirrel spend his little rage<br>In jumping round a rolling cage?<br>The cage, as either side turn'd up,<br>Striking a ring of bells a-top?--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mov'd in the orb, pleas'd with the chimes,<br>The foolish creature thinks he climbs:<br>But here or there, turn wood or wire,<br>He never gets two inches higher.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So fares it with those merry blades,<br>That frisk it under Pindus' shades.<br>In noble songs, and lofty odes,<br>They tread on stars, and talk with gods;<br>Still dancing in an airy round,<br>Still pleas'd with their own verses' sound;<br>Brought back, how fast soe'er they go,<br>Always aspiring, always low.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Prior">Matthew Prior</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=457090" data-title="A Simile de Matthew Prior" data-description="Dear Thomas, didst thou never pop Thy head into a tin-man's shop? There, Thomas, didst thou never see ('Tis but by way of simile) A squirrel spend his little rage In jumping round a rolling cage? The cage, as either side turn'd up, Striking a ring..."></div> </div> </div>

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