<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536566" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: IX</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ON HER WAYWARDNESS<br>This is rank slavery. It better were<br>To till the thankless earth with sweat of brow,<br>Following dull oxen 'neath a goad of care<br>To a boor's grave agape behind the plough.<br>It better were to linger in some slow<br>Unnatural case, the sport of flood or fire,<br>To be undone by some inhuman vow<br>And robbed in youth of youth and its desire.<br>It better were to perish than thus live<br>Thy pensioner and bondsman, day by day<br>Doing fool's service thus for love of thee.<br>How shall I save thee if thou wilt not grieve<br>Even for shames like these? How shall I slay<br>The foes thou lovest, thou, their enemy?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wilfrid+Scawen+Blunt">Wilfrid Scawen Blunt</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=536566" data-title="The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: IX de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="ON HER WAYWARDNESS This is rank slavery. It better were To till the thankless earth with sweat of brow, Following dull oxen 'neath a goad of care To a boor's grave agape behind the plough. It better were to linger in some slow Unnatural case, the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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