<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=530146" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Oft Have I Read That Innocence Retreats</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oft have I read that Innocence retreats<br>Where cooling streams salute ye summer Seats<br>Singing at ease she roves ye field of flowrs<br>Or safe with shepheards lys among the bowrs<br>But late alas I crossd a country fare<br>And found No Strephon nor Dorinda there<br>There Hodge & William Joynd to cully ned<br>While Ned was drinking Hodge & William dead <br>There Cicely Jeard by day the slips of Nell<br>& ere ye night was ended Cicely fell<br>Are these the Virtues which adorn the plain<br>Ye bards forsake your old Arcadian Vein<br>To sheep those tender Innocents resign<br>The place where swains & nymphs are said to shine<br>Swains twice as Wicked Nymphs but half as sage<br>Tis sheep alone retrieve ye golden age.</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=530146" data-title="Oft Have I Read That Innocence Retreats de Thomas Parnell" data-description="Oft have I read that Innocence retreats Where cooling streams salute ye summer Seats Singing at ease she roves ye field of flowrs Or safe with shepheards lys among the bowrs But late alas I crossd a country fare And found No Strephon nor Dorinda t..."></div> </div> </div>

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