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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=499045" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Snail</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wise emblem of our politic world,<br>Sage snail, within thine own self curl'd;<br>Instruct me softly to make haste,<br>Whilst these my feet go slowly fast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Compendious snail! thou seem'st to me,<br>Large Euclid's strict epitome;<br>And in each diagram dost fling<br>Thee from the point unto the ring;<br>A figure now triangular,<br>An oval now, and now a square;<br>And then a serpentine dost crawl,<br>Now a straight line, now crook'd, now all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Preventing rival of the day,<br>Th'art up and openest thy ray,<br>And ere the morn cradles the moon<br>Th'art broke into a beauteous noon.<br>Then when the sun sups in the deep,<br>Thy silver horns ere Cynthia's peep;<br>And thou from thine own liquid bed<br>New Phoebus heav'st thy pleasant head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Who shall a name for thee create,<br>Deep riddle of mysterious state?<br>Bold Nature that gives common birth<br>To all products of seas and earth,<br>Of thee, as earthquakes, is afraid,<br>Nor will thy dire deliv'ry aid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Thou thine own daughter then, and sire,<br>That son and mother art entire,<br>That big still with thy self dost go,<br>And liv'st an aged embryo;<br>That like the cubs of India,<br>Thou from thyself a while dost play;<br>But frighted with a dog or gun,<br>In thine own belly thou dost run,<br>And as thy house was thine own womb,<br>So thine own womb concludes thy tomb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> But now I must (analyz'd king)<br>Thy economic virtues sing;<br>Thou great stay'd husband still within,<br>Thou, thee, that's thine dost discipline;<br>And when thou art to progress bent,<br>Thou mov'st thy self and tenement,<br>As warlike Scythians travell'd, you<br>Remove your men and city too;<br>Then after a sad dearth and rain,<br>Thou scatterest thy silver train;<br>And when the trees grow nak'd and old,<br>Thou clothest them with cloth of gold,<br>Which from thy bowels thou dost spin,<br>And draw from the rich mines within.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Now hast thou chang'd thee saint; and made<br>Thy self a fane that's cupola'd;<br>And in thy wreathed cloister thou<br>Walkest thine own grey friar too;<br>Strict, and lock'd up, th'art hood all o'er,<br>And ne'er eliminat'st thy door.<br>On salads thou dost feed severe,<br>And 'stead of beads thou dropp'st a tear;<br>And when to rest, each calls the bell,<br> Thou sleep'st within thy marble cell,<br>Where in dark contemplation plac'd,<br>The sweets of nature thou dost taste;<br>Who now with time thy days resolve,<br>And in a jelly thee dissolve,<br>Like a shot star, which doth repair<br>Upward, and rarify the air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Richard+Lovelace">Richard Lovelace</a><div class=q>
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Sage snail, within thine own self curl'd;
Instruct me softly to make haste,
Whilst these my feet go slowly fast.

 Compendious snail! thou seem'st to me,
Large Euclid's strict epitome;
And in each diagram dost fli..."></div>
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