<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537635" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines On The Death Of Sir William Russel</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Doomed, as I am, in solitude to waste<br>The present moments, and regret the past,<br>Deprived of every joy I valued most,<br>My friend torn from me, and my mistress lost,<br>Call not this gloom I wear, this anxious mien,<br>The dull effect of humor, or of spleen!<br>Still, still I mourn, with each returning day,<br>Him snatch'd by fate in early youth away;<br>And her -- thro' tedious years of doubt and pain,<br>Fix'd in her choice, and faithful -- but in vain!<br>O prone to pity, generous, and sincere,<br>Whose eye ne'er yet refus'd the wretch a tear;<br>Whose heart the real claim of friendship knows <br>Nor thinks a lover's are but fancied woes;<br>See me -- ere yet my destin'd course half done,<br>Cast forth a wand'rer on a world unknown!<br>See me neglected on the world's rude coast,<br>Each dear companion of my voyage lost!<br>Nor ask why clouds of sorrow shade my brow,<br>And ready tears wait only leave to flow!<br>Why all that soothes a heart from anguish free<br>All that delights the happy -- palls with me!</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=537635" data-title="Lines On The Death Of Sir William Russel de William Cowper" data-description="Doomed, as I am, in solitude to waste The present moments, and regret the past, Deprived of every joy I valued most, My friend torn from me, and my mistress lost, Call not this gloom I wear, this anxious mien, The dull effect of humor, or of splee..."></div> </div> </div>

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