<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537532" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Attempt At The Manner Of Waller</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did not thy reason, and thy sense,<br>With most persuasive eloquence,<br>Convince me that obedience due<br>None may so justly claim as you,<br>By right of beauty you would be<br>Mistress o'er my heart and me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then fear not I should e'er rebel,<br>My gentle love! I might as well<br>A forward peevishness put on,<br>And quarrel with the mid-day sun;<br>Or question who gave him a right<br>To be so fiery and so bright.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nay, this were less absurd and vain<br>Than disobedience to thy reign;<br>His beams are oft too severe;<br>But thou art mild, as thou art fair;<br>First from necessity we own your sway,<br>Then scorn our freedom, and by choice obey.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</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=537532" data-title="An Attempt At The Manner Of Waller de William Cowper" data-description="Did not thy reason, and thy sense, With most persuasive eloquence, Convince me that obedience due None may so justly claim as you, By right of beauty you would be Mistress o'er my heart and me. Then fear not I should e'er rebel, My gentle love! ..."></div> </div> </div>

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