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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457124" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cupid And Ganymede</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Heav'n, one Holy-day, You read<br>In wise Anacreon, Ganymede <br>Drew heedless Cupid in, to throw<br>A Main, to pass an Hour, or so.<br>The little Trojan, by the way,<br>By Hermes taught, play'd All the Play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The God unhappily engag'd,<br>By Nature rash, by Play enrag'd,<br>Complain'd, and sigh'd, and cry'd, and fretted;<br>Lost ev'ry earthly thing He betted:<br>In ready Mony, all the Store<br>Pick'd up long since from Danae's Show'r;<br>A Snush-Box, set with bleeding Hearts,<br>Rubies, all pierc'd with Diamond Darts;<br>His Nine-pins, made of Myrtle Wood;<br>(The Tree in Ida's Forest stood)<br>His Bowl pure Gold, the very same<br>Which Paris gave the Cyprian Dame;<br>Two Table-Books in Shagreen Covers;<br>Fill'd with good Verse from real Lovers;<br>Merchandise rare! A Billet-doux,<br>It's Matter passionate, yet true:<br>Heaps of Hair Rings, and cypher'd Seals;<br>Rich Trifles; serious Bagatelles.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What sad Disorders Play begets!<br>Desp'rate and mad, at length He sets<br>Those Darts, whose Points make Gods adore<br>His Might, and deprecate his Pow'r:<br>Those Darts, whence all our Joy and Pain<br>Arise: those Darts—come, Seven's the Main,<br>Cries Ganymede: The usual Trick:<br>Seven, slur a Six; Eleven: A Nick.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ill News goes fast: 'Twas quickly known,<br>That simple Cupid was undone.<br>Swifter than Lightning Venus flew:<br>Too late She found the thing too true.<br>Guess how the Goddess greets her Son:<br>Come hither, Sirrah; no, begon;<br>And, hark Ye, is it so indeed?<br>A Comrade You for Ganymede?<br>An Imp as wicked, for his Age,<br>As any earthly Lady's Page;<br>A Scandal and a Scourge to Troy:<br>A Prince's Son? A Black-guard Boy:<br>A Sharper, that with Box and Dice<br>Draws in young Deities to Vice.<br>All Heav'n is by the Ears together,<br>Since first That little Rogue came hither:<br>Juno her self has had no Peace:<br>And truly I've been favour'd less:<br>For Jove, as Fame reports, (but Fame <br>Says things not fit for Me to name)<br>Has acted ill for such a God,<br>And taken Ways extreamly odd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Thou, unhappy Child, She said<br>(Her Anger by her Grief allay'd)<br>Unhappy Child, who thus hast lost<br>All the Estate We e'er could boast;<br>Whither, O whither wilt Thou run,<br>Thy Name despis'd, thy Weakness known?<br>Nor shall thy Shrine on Earth be crown'd:<br>Nor shall thy Pow'r in Heav'n be own'd;<br>When Thou, nor Man, nor God can'st wound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Obedient Cupid kneeling cry'd,<br>Cease, dearest Mother, cease to chide:<br>Gany's a Cheat, and I'm a Bubble:<br>Yet why this great Excess of Trouble?<br>The Dice were false: the Darts are gone:<br>Yet how are You, or I undone?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Loss of These I can supply<br>With keener Shafts from Cloe's Eye:<br>Fear not, We e'er can be disgrac'd,<br>While That bright Magazine shall last:<br>Your crowded Altars still shall smoke;<br>And Man your Friendly Aid invoke:<br>Jove shall again revere your Pow'r,<br>And rise a Swan, or fall a Show'r.</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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In wise Anacreon, Ganymede 
Drew heedless Cupid in, to throw
A Main, to pass an Hour, or so.
The little Trojan, by the way,
By Hermes taught, play'd All the Play.

The God unhappily engag'd,
By Nature rash, by Pla..."></div>
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