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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508039" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Birth-Day Ode 02</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Small is the new-born plant scarce seen<br> Amid the soft encircling green,<br> Where yonder budding acorn rears,<br> Just o'er the waving grass, its tender head:<br> Slow pass along the train of years,<br> And on the growing plant, their dews and showers they shed.<br> Anon it rears aloft its giant form,<br> And spreads its broad-brown arms to meet the storm.<br> Beneath its boughs far shadowing o'er the plain,<br>From summer suns, repair the grateful village train.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Nor BEDFORD will my friend survey<br> The book of Nature with unheeding eye;<br> For never beams the rising orb of day,<br> For never dimly dies the refluent ray,<br> But as the moralizer marks the sky,<br>He broods with strange delight upon futurity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And we must muse my friend! maturer years<br> Arise, and other Hopes and other Fears,<br> For we have past the pleasant plains of Youth.<br> Oh pleasant plains! that we might stray<br> For ever o'er your faery ground--<br> For ever roam your vales around,<br> Nor onward tempt the dangerous way--<br> For oh--what numerous foes assail<br> The Traveller, from that chearful vale!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> With toil and heaviness opprest<br> Seek not the flowery bank for rest,<br> Tho' there the bowering woodbine spread<br> Its fragrant shelter o'er thy head,<br>Tho' Zephyr there should linger long<br>To hear the sky-lark's wildly-warbled song,<br>There heedless Youth shalt thou awake<br>The vengeance of the coiling snake!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tho' fairly smiles the vernal mead<br>To tempt thy pilgrim feet, proceed<br> Hold on thy steady course aright,<br>Else shalt thou wandering o'er the pathless plain,<br> When damp and dark descends the night<br>Shivering and shelterless, repent in vain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet--tho' Dangers lurk on every side<br>Receive not WORLDLY WISDOM for thy guide!<br> Beneath his care thou wilt not know<br> The throb of unavailing woe,<br> No tear shall tremble in thine eye<br> Thy breast shall struggle with no sigh,<br> He will security impart,<br> But he will apathize thy heart!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Ah no!<br> Fly Fly that fatal foe,<br>Virtue shall shrink from his torpedo grasp--<br> For not more fatal thro' the Wretches veins<br> Benumb'd in Death's cold pains<br>Creeps the chill poison of the deadly asp.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Serener joys my friend await<br> Maturer manhood's steady state.<br> The wild brook bursting from its source<br> Meanders on its early course,<br> Delighting there with winding way<br> Amid the vernal vale to stray,<br> Emerging thence more widely spread<br> It foams along its craggy bed,<br> And shatter'd with the mighty shock<br> Rushes from the giddy rock--<br> Hurl'd headlong o'er the dangerous steep<br> On runs the current to the deep,<br> And gathering waters as it goes<br> Serene and calm the river flows,<br> Diffuses plenty o'er the smiling coast,<br>Rolls on its stately waves and is in ocean lost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Southey">Robert Southey</a><div class=q>
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 Amid the soft encircling green,
 Where yonder budding acorn rears,
 Just o'er the waving grass, its tender head:
 Slow pass along the train of years,
 And on the growing plant, their dews and showers they s..."></div>
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