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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539244" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Simile</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What village but has sometimes seen<br>The clumsy shape, the frightful mien,<br>Tremendous claws, and shagged hair<br>Of that grim brute yclept a bear?<br>He from his dam the learn'd agree,<br>Received the curious form you see;<br>Who with her plastic tongue alone,<br>Produced a visage-like her own-<br>And thus they hint, in mystic fashion,<br>The powerful force of education.<br>Perhaps yon crowd of swains is viewing,<br>Even now, the strange exploits of Bruin,<br>Who plays his antics, roars aloud,<br>The wonder of a gaping crowd!<br>So have I known an awkward lad,<br>Whose birth has made a parish glad,<br>Forbid, for fear of sense, to roam,<br>And taught by kind mamma at home,<br>Who gives him many a well-tried rule,<br>With ways and means-to play the fool.<br>In sense the same, in stature higher,<br>He shines, ere long, a rural squire,<br>Pours forth unwitty jokes, and swears,<br>And bawls, and drinks, but chiefly stares:<br>His tenants of superior sense<br>Carouse, and laugh, at his expense,<br>And deem the pastime I'm relating<br>To be as pleasant as bear-baiting.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Shenstone">William Shenstone</a><div class=q>
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The clumsy shape, the frightful mien,
Tremendous claws, and shagged hair
Of that grim brute yclept a bear?
He from his dam the learn'd agree,
Received the curious form you see;
Who with her plastic tongue alone,..."></div>
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