<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Shrubbery, Written in a Time of Affliction</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh happy shades--to me unblest!<br> Friendly to peace, but not to me!<br> How ill the scene that offers rest,<br> And heart that cannot rest, agree!<br> This glassy stream, that spreading pine,<br> Those alders quiv'ring to the breeze,<br> Might sooth a soul less hurt than mine,<br> And please, if any thing could please.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> But fix'd unalterable care<br> Foregoes not what she feels within,<br> Shows the same sadness ev'rywhere,<br> And slights the season and the scene.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> For all that pleas'd in wood or lawn,<br> While peace possess'd these silent bow'rs,<br> Her animating smile withdrawn,<br> Has lost its beauties and its pow'rs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The saint or moralist should tread<br> This moss-grown alley, musing, slow;<br> They seek, like me, the secret shade,<br> But not, like me, to nourish woe!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Me fruitful scenes and prospects waste<br> Alike admonish not to roam;<br> These tell me of enjoyments past,<br> And those of sorrows yet to come.</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=537906" data-title="The Shrubbery, Written in a Time of Affliction de William Cowper" data-description="Oh happy shades--to me unblest! Friendly to peace, but not to me! How ill the scene that offers rest, And heart that cannot rest, agree! This glassy stream, that spreading pine, Those alders quiv'ring to the breeze, Might sooth a soul less h..."></div> </div> </div>

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