<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537573" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Epigram : The Cottager And His Landlord. A Fable (Translated From Milton)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Peasant to his lord yearly court,<br>Presenting pippins of so rich a sort<br>That he, displeased to have a part alone,<br>Removed the tree, that all might be his own.<br>The tree, too old to travel, though before<br>So fruitful, withered, and would yield no more.<br>The squire, perceiving all his labour void,<br>Cursed his own pains, so foolishly employed,<br>And 'Oh,' he cried, 'that I had lived content<br>With tribute, small indeed, but kindly meant!<br>My avarice has expensive proved to me,<br>Has cost me both my pippins and my tree.'</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=537573" data-title="Epigram : The Cottager And His Landlord. A Fable (Translated From Milton) de William Cowper" data-description="A Peasant to his lord yearly court, Presenting pippins of so rich a sort That he, displeased to have a part alone, Removed the tree, that all might be his own. The tree, too old to travel, though before So fruitful, withered, and would yield no mo..."></div> </div> </div>

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