<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537739" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On A Goldfinch, Starved To Death In His Cage</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time was when I was free as air,<br>The thistle's downy seed my fare,<br>My drink the morning dew;<br>I perch'd at will on every spray,<br>My form genteel, my plumage gay,<br>My strains for ever new.<br>But gaudy plumage, sprightly strain,<br>And form genteel were all in vain,<br>And of a transient date;<br>For, caught and caged, and starved to death,<br>In dying sighs my little breath<br>Soon pass’d the wiry grate.<br>Thanks, gentle swain, for all my woes,<br>And thanks for this effectual close<br>And cure of every ill!<br>More cruelty could none express;<br>And I, if you had shown me less,<br>Had been your prisoner still.</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=537739" data-title="On A Goldfinch, Starved To Death In His Cage de William Cowper" data-description="Time was when I was free as air, The thistle's downy seed my fare, My drink the morning dew; I perch'd at will on every spray, My form genteel, my plumage gay, My strains for ever new. But gaudy plumage, sprightly strain, And form genteel were all..."></div> </div> </div>

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