<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537868" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Flatting-Mill. An Illustration</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When a bar of pure silver or ingot of gold <br>Is sent to be flatted or wrought into length, <br>It is pass'd between cylinders often, and roll'd <br>In an engine of utmost mechanical strength. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus tortured and squeezed, at last it appears <br>Like a loose heap of ribbon, a glittering show, <br>Like music it tinkles and rings in your ears, <br>And warm'd by the pressure is all in a glow. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This process achiev'd, it is doom'd to sustain <br>The thump-after-thump of a gold-beater's mallet, <br>And at last is of service in sickness or pain <br>To cover a pill from a delicate palate. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas for the Poet, who dares undertake <br>To urge reformation of national ill! <br>His head and his heart are both likely to ache <br>With the double employment of mallet and mill. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If he wish to instruct, he must learn to delight, <br>Smooth, ductile, and even, his fancy must flow, <br>Must tinkle and glitter like gold to the sight, <br>And catch in its progress a sensible glow. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">After all he must beat it as thin and as fine <br>As the leaf that enfolds what an invalid swallows, <br>For truth is unwelcome, however divine, <br>And unless you adorn it, a nausea follows.</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=537868" data-title="The Flatting-Mill. An Illustration de William Cowper" data-description="When a bar of pure silver or ingot of gold Is sent to be flatted or wrought into length, It is pass'd between cylinders often, and roll'd In an engine of utmost mechanical strength. Thus tortured and squeezed, at last it appears Like a loose..."></div> </div> </div>

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