<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537837" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Stanzas On The Late Indecent Liberties Taken With The Remains Of The Great Milton</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Me too, perchance, in future days,<br>The sculptured stone shall show,<br>With Paphian myrtle or with bays<br>Parnassian on my brow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But I, or e'er that season come,<br>Escaped from every care,<br>Shall reach my refuge in the tomb,<br>And sleep securely there.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So sang, in Roman tone and style,<br>The youthful bard, ere long<br>Ordained to grace his native isle<br>With her sublimest song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who then but must conceive disdain,<br>Hearing the deed unblest,<br>Of wretches who have dared profane<br>His dread sepulchral rest?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ill fare the hands that heaved the stones<br>Where Milton's ashes lay,<br>That trembled not to grasp his bones<br>And steal his dust away!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O ill-requited bard! neglect<br>Thy living worth repaid,<br>And blind idolatrous respect<br>As much affronts thee dead.</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=537837" data-title="Stanzas On The Late Indecent Liberties Taken With The Remains Of The Great Milton de William Cowper" data-description="'Me too, perchance, in future days, The sculptured stone shall show, With Paphian myrtle or with bays Parnassian on my brow. 'But I, or e'er that season come, Escaped from every care, Shall reach my refuge in the tomb, And sleep securely there.' ..."></div> </div> </div>

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