<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537900" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Poplar Field</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade<br>And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade:<br>The winds play no longer and sing in the leaves,<br>Nor Ouse on his bosom their image receives.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twelve years have elapsed since I first took a view<br>Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew,<br>And now in the grass behold they are laid,<br>And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The blackbird has fled to another retreat<br>Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat;<br>And the scene where his melody charmed me before<br>Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My fugitive years are all hasting away,<br>And I must ere long lie as lowly as they,<br>With a turf on my breast and a stone at my head,<br>Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can,<br>To muse on the perishing pleasures of man;<br>Short-lived as we are, our enjoyments, I see,<br>Have a still shorter date, and die sooner than we.</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=537900" data-title="The Poplar Field de William Cowper" data-description="The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade: The winds play no longer and sing in the leaves, Nor Ouse on his bosom their image receives. Twelve years have elapsed since I first took a view Of my f..."></div> </div> </div>

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