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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536853" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Imitation of Spenser</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Golden Apollo, that thro' heaven wide<br>Scatter'st the rays of light, and truth's beams,<br>In lucent words my darkling verses dight,<br>And wash my earthy mind in thy clear streams,<br>That wisdom may descend in fairy dreams,<br>All while the jocund hours in thy train<br>Scatter their fancies at thy poet's feet;<br>And when thou yields to night thy wide domain,<br>Let rays of truth enlight his sleeping brain.<br>For brutish Pan in vain might thee assay<br>With tinkling sounds to dash thy nervous verse,<br>Sound without sense; yet in his rude affray,<br>(For ignorance is Folly's leasing nurse<br>And love of Folly needs none other's curse)<br>Midas the praise hath gain'd of lengthen'd ears,<br>For which himself might deem him ne'er the worse<br>To sit in council with his modern peers,<br>And judge of tinkling rimes and elegances terse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And thou, Mercurius, that with wingèd brow<br>Dost mount aloft into the yielding sky,<br>And thro' Heav'n's halls thy airy flight dost throw,<br>Entering with holy feet to where on high<br>Jove weighs the counsel of futurity;<br>Then, laden with eternal fate, dost go<br>Down, like a falling star, from autumn sky,<br>And o'er the surface of the silent deep dost fly:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If thou arrivest at the sandy shore<br>Where nought but envious hissing adders dwell,<br>Thy golden rod, thrown on t 1000 he dusty floor,<br>Can charm to harmony with potent spell.<br>Such is sweet Eloquence, that does dispel<br>Envy and Hate that thirst for human gore;<br>And cause in sweet society to dwell<br>Vile savage minds that lurk in lonely cell</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Mercury, assist my lab'ring sense<br>That round the circle of the world would fly,<br>As the wing'd eagle scorns the tow'ry fence<br>Of Alpine hills round his high aëry,<br>And searches thro' the corners of the sky,<br>Sports in the clouds to hear the thunder's sound,<br>And see the wingèd lightnings as they fly;<br>Then, bosom'd in an amber cloud, around<br>Plumes his wide wings, and seeks Sol's palace high.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And thou, O warrior maid invincible,<br>Arm'd with the terrors of Almighty Jove,<br>Pallas, Minerva, maiden terrible,<br>Lov'st thou to walk the peaceful solemn grove,<br>In solemn gloom of branches interwove?<br>Or bear'st thy AEgis o'er the burning field,<br>Where, like the sea, the waves of battle move?<br>Or have thy soft piteous eyes beheld<br>The weary wanderer thro' the desert rove?<br>Or does th' afflicted man thy heav'nly bosom move?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Blake">William Blake</a><div class=q>
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Scatter'st the rays of light, and truth's beams,
In lucent words my darkling verses dight,
And wash my earthy mind in thy clear streams,
That wisdom may descend in fairy dreams,
All while the jocund hours in t..."></div>
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