<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535400" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Alciphron and Leucippe</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">An ancient chestnut’s blossoms threw<br>Their heavy odour over two:<br>Leucippe, it is said, was one;<br>The other, then, was Alciphron.<br>‘Come, come! why should we stand beneath?’<br>This hollow tree’s unwholesome breath?’<br>Said Alciphron, ‘here’s not a blade<br>Of grass or moss, and scanty shade.<br>Come; it is just the hour to rove<br>In the lone dingle shepherds love;<br>There, straight and tall, the hazel twig<br>Divides the crookàed rock-held fig,<br>O’er the blue pebbles where the rill<br>In winter runs and may run still.<br>Come then, while fresh and calm the air,<br>And while the shepherds are not there.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leucippe. But I would rather go when they<br>Sit round about and sing and play.<br>Then why so hurry me? for you<br>Like play and song, and shepherds too. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alciphron. I like the shepherds very well,<br>And song and play, as you can tell.<br>But there is play, I sadly fear,<br>And song I would not have you hear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leucippe. What can it be? What can it be? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alciphron. To you may none of them repeat<br>The play that you have play’d with me,<br>The song that made your bosom beat. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leucippe. Don’t keep your arm about my waist. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alciphron. Might you not stumble? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leucippe. Well then, do.<br>But why are we in all this haste? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alciphron. To sing. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leucippe. Alas! and not play too?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walter+Savage+Landor">Walter Savage Landor</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=535400" data-title="Alciphron and Leucippe de Walter Savage Landor" data-description="An ancient chestnut’s blossoms threw Their heavy odour over two: Leucippe, it is said, was one; The other, then, was Alciphron. ‘Come, come! why should we stand beneath?’ This hollow tree’s unwholesome breath?’ Said Alciphron, ‘here’..."></div> </div> </div>

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