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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537780" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Death Of The Bishop Of Ely. Anno Aet. 17. (Translated From Milton)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My lids with grief were tumid yet,<br>And still my sullied cheek was wet<br>With briny dews profusely shed<br>For venerable Winton dead,<br>When Fame, whose tales of saddest sound<br>Alas! are ever truest found,<br>The news through all our cities spread<br>Of yet another mitred head<br>By ruthless Fate to Death consign'd,<br>Ely, the honour of his kind. <br>At once, a storm of passion heav'd<br>My boiling bosom, much I grieved<br>But more I raged, at ev'ry breath<br>Devoting Death himself to death.<br>With less revenge did Naso teem<br>When hated Ibis was his theme;<br>With less, Archilochus, denied<br>The lovely Greek, his promis'd bride.<br>But lo! while thus I execrate,<br>Incens'd, the Minister of Fate, <br>Wondrous accents, soft, yet clear,<br>Wafted on the gale I hear.<br>Ah, much deluded! lay aside<br>Thy threats and anger misapplied.<br>Art not afraid with sounds like these<br>T'offend whom thou canst not appease?<br>Death is not (wherefore dream'st thou thus?)<br>The son of Night and Erebus,<br>Nor was of fel1 Erynnis born<br>In gulphs, where Chaos rules forlorn,<br>But sent from God, his presence leaves,<br>To gather home his ripen'd sheaves,<br>To call encumber'd souls away<br>From fleshly bonds to boundless day,<br>(As when the winged Hours excite,<br>And summon forth the Morning-light)<br>And each to convoy to her place<br>Before th'Eternal Father's face.<br>But not the wicked-Them, severe<br>Yet just, from all their pleasures here <br>He hurries to the realms below,<br>Terrific realms of penal woe!<br>Myself no sooner heard his call<br>Than, scaping through my prison-wall,<br>I bade adieu to bolts and bars,<br>And soar'd with angels to the stars,<br>Like Him of old, to whom 'twas giv'n<br>To mount, on fiery wheels, to heav'n.<br>Bootes' wagon, slow with cold<br>Appall'd me not, nor to behold <br>The sword that vast Orion draws,<br>Or ev'n the Scorpion's horrid claws.<br>Beyond the Sun's bright orb I fly,<br>And far beneath my feet descry<br>Night's dread goddess, seen with awe,<br>Whom her winged dragons draw.<br>Thus, ever wond'ring at my speed<br>Augmented still as I proceed,<br>I pass the Planetary sphere,<br>The Milky Way--and now appear <br>Heav'ns crystal battlements, her door<br>Of massy pearl, and em'rald floor.<br>But here I cease. For never can<br>The tongue of once a mortal man<br>In suitable description trace<br>The pleasures of that happy place,<br>Suffice it that those joys divine<br>Are all, and all for ever, mine.</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>
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And still my sullied cheek was wet
With briny dews profusely shed
For venerable Winton dead,
When Fame, whose tales of saddest sound
Alas! are ever truest found,
The news through all our cities spread
Of yet anot..."></div>
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