<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537882" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lily And The Rose</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The nymph must lose her female friend<br>If more admired than she, -<br>But where will fierce contention end<br>If flowers can disagree?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Within the garden's peaceful scene<br>Appeared two lovely foes,<br>Aspiring to the rank of queen,<br>The Lily and the Rose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Rose soon reddened into rage,<br>And swelling with disdain,<br>Appealed to many a poet's page<br>To prove her right to reign.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Lily's height bespoke command,<br>A fair imperial flower,<br>She seemed designed for Flora's hand,<br>The sceptre of her power.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This civil bickering and debate<br>The goddess chanced to hear,<br>And flew to save, ere yet too late,<br>The pride of the parterre.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yours is, she said, the nobler hue,<br>And yours the statelier mien,<br>And till a third surpasses you, <br>Let each be deemed a queen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus soothed and reconciled, each seeks<br>The fairest British fair,<br>The seat of empire is her cheeks,<br>They reign united there.</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=537882" data-title="The Lily And The Rose de William Cowper" data-description="The nymph must lose her female friend If more admired than she, - But where will fierce contention end If flowers can disagree? Within the garden's peaceful scene Appeared two lovely foes, Aspiring to the rank of queen, The Lily and the Rose. Th..."></div> </div> </div>

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