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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=534746" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To a Lady Very Well Known to the Whole Town</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Phillis, how much the times are changed,<br>Since in a hack the town you ranged,<br>Since without finery or train you shone,<br>Conspicuous for your charms alone;<br>When though you supped on sorry fare,<br>You nectar seemed with gods to share.<br>You foolishly to one consigned<br>Beauty which might charm all mankind:<br>A desperate lover, who for life<br>Engaged you when he made his wife.<br>You then no treasure did inherit,<br>Your beauty was your only merit,<br>Your bosom charms divine displayed;<br>There Cupid still an ambush laid;<br>Your heart was tender, and your mind<br>To youthful frolics much inclined.<br>With so many charms endued,<br>What woman e'er could be a prude?<br>That fault, oh! beauty all divine,<br>Was very far from being thine;<br>Because of favors you were free,<br>You were the better liked by me.<br>How differently you live, grown great,<br>Your life is but the farce of state;<br>The hoary porter, who still plies<br>At your own door, and tells such lies,<br>Is a just emblem of the age,<br>His very looks ill-luck presage;<br>He thinks the duty of his place is<br>To drive away the loves and graces.<br>The tender swain's abashed, afraid<br>Your pompous palace to invade.<br>When you were young, to my amazement<br>I've seen them enter at the casement;<br>I've seen them enter every day,<br>And in your chamber nimbly play.<br>Not all your carpets, and your plate,<br>Not all your proud parade of state,<br>Those goblets which so brightly shine,<br>Graved by Germain with art divine;<br>Those closets nobly furnished, where<br>Martin's exceeds the China ware,<br>Your vases of Japan, and all<br>The brittle wonders of your hall;<br>Your diamond pendants which appear<br>With such bright lustre at each ear;<br>Your solitaires so dazzling bright,<br>Your pomp which strikes the gazer's sight,<br>Are worth one quarter of that bliss,<br>Which once you imparted by a kiss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Voltaire">Voltaire</a><div class=q>
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Since in a hack the town you ranged,
Since without finery or train you shone,
Conspicuous for your charms alone;
When though you supped on sorry fare,
You nectar seemed with gods to share.
You foolishly to ..."></div>
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