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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=530117" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Concerning Resolution</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Happy the man whose firm resolves obtain<br>Assisting Grace to burst his sinfull chain<br>For him the Days with golden minutes glow<br>Tis his the Land where milk & hony flow<br>Justice & mercy piety & peace<br>Attend his workes & crown them with success<br>He hopes the best that is for heavn prepard<br>& wants no bliss while virtue can reward<br>That purpled hour which ushers in the light<br>& that which shuts its beautys up in night<br>Still hears him pray still sees his actions right<br>For him they still on easy minutes speed<br>& as they move for him the rest succeed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But most Alas by vain opinion lead<br>Ore the wild maze of erring passions tread<br>& now to this & now to that we go<br>& each desire & neither rightly know<br>& act irresolute in all we do<br>& seldom stay to search our objects through<br>Desire is vain & wanton free to range<br>Fond of a Chace & fond the Chace to Change<br>By turns a thousand inclinations rise<br>& each by turns as impotently dies<br>Now thought grows wild if loose Aminta's kind<br>Shee spreads her Charms & captivates the mind<br>Anon Aminta leaves the thought at ease <br>No more her aires & soft Allurements please<br>We love reclining in ye shady bowers<br>by running waters near sweet banks of flowrs<br>To surfeit nature with full bowles of wine<br>& with forcd appetites on bliss refine<br>Then buisy then fantastically wise<br>Then to be some thing else we streight devise<br>For Fancy still undreind affors supplys<br>tis thus if reason from the throne be gon<br>The madd affections bear their master on<br>His life proves restless & his labour vain<br>By hurrying after Phantomes of the brain<br>So the brave Falcon when its glorys fade<br>When its strong wings their generous forces shed<br>The vacant holds ignobler birds supply<br>With Ravens feathers impd she mounts on high<br>& weak or giddy strayes along the sky</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Every Change indeed resolves we make<br>But those resolves to settle newer break<br>By contradictions thus we seem to live<br>Nor want the colour of a cause to give<br>Kind heav'n forgive us when for what we do<br>We woud debauch our knack of reasning too<br>When int'rest does on thought its force dispence<br>When pleasure beats upon the dazzled sence<br>Our resolutions oft in vain are made<br>Kind heavn forgive the fault & lend thine aid.<br>If by thy law we must temptations find<br>If these must try the temper of the mind<br>We begg thee not to change thy good decree<br>We begg for pardon or support from thee<br>Our wisdome never shoud thy ways confine<br>but thus confess & humbly rest in thine<br>Tis well theres tryalls since the mans so proud<br>& since he's weak tis well theres Grace allowd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Parnell">Thomas Parnell</a><div class=q>
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Assisting Grace to burst his sinfull chain
For him the Days with golden minutes glow
Tis his the Land where milk & hony flow
Justice & mercy piety & peace
Attend his workes & crown them with success
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