<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538678" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Wardour Castle</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If rich designs of sumptuous art may please,<br>Or Nature's loftier views, august and old,<br>Stranger! behold this spreading scene;--behold<br>This amphitheatre of aged trees,<br>That solemn wave above thee, and around<br>Darken the towering hills! Dost thou complain<br>That thou shouldst cope with penury or pain,<br>Or sigh to think what pleasures might be found<br>Amid such wide possessions!--Pause awhile;<br>Imagine thou dost see the sick man smile;<br>See the pale exiles, that in yonder dome,<br>Safe from the wasteful storm, have found a home;<br>And thank the Giver of all good, that lent<br>To the humane, retired, beneficent,<br>The power to bless. Nor lift thy heart elate,<br>If such domains be thine; but emulate<br>The fair example, and those deeds, that rise<br>Like holy incense wafted to the skies;<br>Those deeds that shall sustain the conscious soul,<br>When all this empty world hath perished, like a scroll!</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=538678" data-title="Wardour Castle de William Lisle Bowles" data-description="If rich designs of sumptuous art may please, Or Nature's loftier views, august and old, Stranger! behold this spreading scene;--behold This amphitheatre of aged trees, That solemn wave above thee, and around Darken the towering hills! Dost thou co..."></div> </div> </div>

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