<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539246" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Anacreontic</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas in a cool Aonian glade,<br>The wanton Cupid, spent with toil,<br>Had sought refreshment from the shade,<br>And stretch'd him on the mossy soil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A vagrant Muse drew nigh, and found<br>The subtle traitor fast asleep;<br>And is it thine to snore profound,<br>She said, yet leave the world to weep?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But hush!-from this auspicious hour<br>The world, I ween, may rest in peace,<br>And, robb'd of darts, and stript of power,<br>Thy peevish petulance decrease.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sleep on, poor Child! whilst I withdraw,<br>And this thy vile artillery hide-<br>When the Castalian fount she saw,<br>And plunged his arrows in the tide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That magic fount,ill-judging maid,<br>Shall cause you soon to curse the day<br>You dared the shafts of Love invade,<br>And gave his arms redoubled sway.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For in a stream so wondrous clear,<br>When angry Cupid searches round,<br>Will not the radiant points appear?<br>Will not the furtive spoils be found?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Too soon they were; and every dart.<br>Dipt in the Muse's mystic spring,<br>Acquired new force to wound the heart,<br>And taught at once to love and sing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then farewell, ye Pierian quire!<br>For who will now your altars throng?<br>From Love we learn to swell the lyre,<br>And Echo asks no sweeter song.</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> <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=539246" data-title="Anacreontic de William Shenstone" data-description="'Twas in a cool Aonian glade, The wanton Cupid, spent with toil, Had sought refreshment from the shade, And stretch'd him on the mossy soil. A vagrant Muse drew nigh, and found The subtle traitor fast asleep; And is it thine to snore profound, Sh..."></div> </div> </div>

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