<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537794" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On the Same - (On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When wit and genius meet their doom<br>In all devouring flame, <br>They tell us of the fate of Rome, <br>And bid us fear the same.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O'er Murray's loss the Muses wept, <br>They felt the rude alarm,<br>Yet blessed the guardian care that kept <br>His sacred head from harm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There memory, like the bee that's fed<br>From Flora's balmy store,<br>The quintessence of all he read<br>Had treasured up before.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lawless herd, with fury blind,<br>Have done him cruel wrong;<br>The flowers are gone, - but still we find<br>The honey on his tongue.</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=537794" data-title="On the Same - (On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library) de William Cowper" data-description="When wit and genius meet their doom In all devouring flame, They tell us of the fate of Rome, And bid us fear the same. O'er Murray's loss the Muses wept, They felt the rude alarm, Yet blessed the guardian care that kept His sacred head from ..."></div> </div> </div>

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