<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538626" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet III. O Thou, whose stern command and precepts pure...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O THOU, whose stern command and precepts pure <br>(Tho' agony in every vein should start, <br>And slowly drain the blood-drops from the heart) <br>Have bade the patient spirit still endure; <br>Thou, who to sorrow hast a beauty lent, <br>On the dark brow, with resolution clad, <br>Illumining the dreary traces sad, <br>Like the cold taper on a monument; <br>O firm Philosophy! display the tide <br>Of human misery, and oft relate <br>How silent sinking in the storms of fate, <br>The brave and good have bow'd their head and died. <br>So taught by Thee, some solace I may find, <br>Remembering the sorrows of mankind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Lisle+Bowles">William Lisle Bowles</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=538626" data-title="Sonnet III. O Thou, whose stern command and precepts pure... de William Lisle Bowles" data-description="O THOU, whose stern command and precepts pure (Tho' agony in every vein should start, And slowly drain the blood-drops from the heart) Have bade the patient spirit still endure; Thou, who to sorrow hast a beauty lent, On the dark brow, with r..."></div> </div> </div>

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