<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537555" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Catharina : The Second Part. On Her Marriage To George Courtenay, Esq.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Believe it or not, as you choose,<br>The doctrine is certainly true,<br>That the future is known to the Muse,<br>And poets are oracles too.<br>I did but express a desire,<br>To see Catharina at home, <br>At the side of my friend George's fire,<br>And lo -- she is actually come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such prophecy some may despise,<br>But the wish of a poet and friend<br>Perhaps is approved in the skies,<br>And therefore attains to its end.<br>'Twas a wish that flew ardently forth<br>From a bosom effectually warmed <br>With the talents, the graces, and worth <br>Of the person for whom it was formed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maria would leave us, I knew,<br>To the grief and regret of us all,<br>But less to our grief, could we view<br>Catharina the queen of the hall.<br>And therefore I wished as I did,<br>And therefore this union of hands;<br>Not a whisper was heard to forbid,<br>But all cry, Amen! to the bans.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since therefore I seem to incur <br>No danger of wishing in vain,<br>When making good wishes for her,<br>I will e'en to my wishes again;<br>With one I have made her a wife,<br>And now I will try with another,<br>Which I cannot suppress for my life,<br>How soon I can make her a mother.</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=537555" data-title="Catharina : The Second Part. On Her Marriage To George Courtenay, Esq. de William Cowper" data-description="Believe it or not, as you choose, The doctrine is certainly true, That the future is known to the Muse, And poets are oracles too. I did but express a desire, To see Catharina at home, At the side of my friend George's fire, And lo -- she is actu..."></div> </div> </div>

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