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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529402" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hymn to Adversity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Daughter of Jove, relentless Power,<br>Thou tamer of the human breast,<br>Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour<br>The Bad affright, afflict the Best!<br>Bound in thy adamantine chain<br>The Proud are taught to taste of pain,<br>And purple Tyrants vainly groan<br>With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When first thy Sire to send on earth<br>Virtue, his darling child, designed,<br>To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth,<br>And bade to form her infant mind.<br>Stern rugged Nurse! thy rigid lore<br>With patience many a year she bore:<br>What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,<br>And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Scared at thy frown terrific, fly<br>Self-pleasing Folly's idle brood,<br>Wild Laughter, Noise, and thoughtless Joy,<br>And leave us leisure to be good.<br>Light they disperse, and with them go<br>The summer Friend, the flatt'ring Foe;<br>By vain Prosperity received,<br>To her they vow their truth, and are again believed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wisdom in sable garb arrayed<br>Immersed in rapt'rous thought profound,<br>And Melancholy, silent maid<br>With leaden eye, that loves the ground,<br>Still on thy solemn steps attend:<br>Warm Charity, the gen'ral Friend,<br>With Justice, to herself severe,<br>And Pity dropping soft the sadly-pleasing tear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, gently on thy Suppliant's head,<br>Dread Goddess, lay thy chast'ning hand!<br>Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad,<br>Not circled with the vengeful Band<br>(As by the Impious thou art seen),<br>With thund'ring voice, and threat'ning mien,<br>With screaming Horror's funeral cry,<br>Despair, and fell Disease, and ghastly Poverty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy form benign, O Goddess, wear,<br>Thy milder influence impart,<br>Thy philosophic Train be there<br>To soften, not to wound my heart.<br>The gen'rous spark extinct revive,<br>Teach me to love and to forgive,<br>Exact my own defects to scan,<br>What others are, to feel, and know myself a Man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Gray">Thomas Gray</a><div class=q>
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Thou tamer of the human breast,
Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour
The Bad affright, afflict the Best!
Bound in thy adamantine chain
The Proud are taught to taste of pain,
And purple Tyrants vainly groan
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