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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457107" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Ode : While Blooming Youth And Gay Delight</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">While blooming youth and gay delight<br>Sit on thy rosy cheeks confess'd,<br>Thou hast, my dear, undoubted right<br>To triumph o'er this destined breast.<br>My reason bends to what thy eyes ordain;<br>For I was born to love, and thou to reign.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But would you meanly thus rely<br>On power you know I must obey? <br>Exert a legal tyranny, <br>And do an ill because you may? <br>Still must I thee, as Atheists Heaven, adore;<br>Not see thy mercy, and yet dread thy power?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take heed, my dear: youth flies apace;<br>As well as Cupid, Time is blind:<br>Soon must those glories of thy face<br>The fate of vulgar beauty find:<br>The thousand Loves, that arm thy potent eye,<br>Must drop their quivers, flag their wings, and die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then wilt thou sigh, when in each frown<br>A hateful wrinkle more appears:<br>And putting peevish humours on, <br>Seems but the sad effect of years:<br>Kindness itself too weak a charm will prove<br>To raise the feeble fires of aged love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Forced compliments, and formal bows,<br>Will show thee just above neglect; <br>The heat with which thy lover glows,<br>Will settle into cold respect:<br>A talking dull Platonic I shall turn;<br>Learn to be civil, when I cease to burn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, shun the ill, and know, my dear,<br>Kindness and constancy will prove<br>The only pillars, fit to bear<br>So vast a weight as that of love.<br>If thou canst wish to make my flames endure,<br>Thine must be very fierce, and very pure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Haste, Celia, haste, while youth invites,<br>Obey kind Cupid's present voice;<br>Fill every sense with soft delights,<br>And give thy soul a loose to joys:<br>Let millions of repeated blisses prove<br>That thou all kindness art, and I all love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be mine, and only mine; take care<br>Thy looks, thy thoughts, thy dreams, to guide<br>To me alone; nor come so far,<br>As liking any youth beside:<br>What men e'er court thee, fly them, and believe<br>They're serpents all, and thou the tempted Eve.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So shall I court thy dearest truth,<br>When beauty ceases to engage;<br>So, thinking on thy charming youth,<br>I'll love it o'er again in age;<br>So time itself our raptures shall improve,<br>While still we wake to joy, and live to love.</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>
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Sit on thy rosy cheeks confess'd,
Thou hast, my dear, undoubted right
To triumph o'er this destined breast.
My reason bends to what thy eyes ordain;
For I was born to love, and thou to reign.

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