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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539273" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Elegy XX. He Compares His Humble Fortune With the Distress of Others</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why droops this heart with fancied woes forlorn?<br>Why sinks my soul beneath this wintry sky?<br>What pensive crowds, by ceaseless labours worn,<br>What myriads, wish to be as blessed as I!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What though my roofs, devoid of pomp, arise,<br>Nor tempt the proud to quit his destined way?<br>Nor costly art my flowery dales disguise,<br>Where only simple friendship deigns to stray?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">See the wild sons of Lapland's chill domain,<br>That scoop their couch beneath the drifted snows!<br>How void of hope they ken the frozen plain,<br>Where the sharp east for ever, ever blows!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Slave though I be, to Delia's eyes a slave,<br>My Delia's eyes endear the bands I wear;<br>The sigh she causes well becomes the brave,<br>The pang she causes 'tis even bliss to bear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">See the poor native quit the Libyan shores,<br>Ah! not in Love's delightful fetters bound!<br>No radiant smile his dying peace restores,<br>Nor love, nor fame, nor friendship, heals his wound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let vacant bards display their boasted woes;<br>Shall I the mockery of grief display?<br>No; let the Muse his piercing pangs disclose,<br>Who bleeds and weeps his sum of life away!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the wild beach in mournful guise he stood,<br>Ere the shrill boatswain gave the hated sign;<br>He dropp'd a tear unseen into the flood;<br>He stole one secret moment, to repine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet the Muse listen'd to the plaints he made,<br>Such moving plaints as Nature could inspire;<br>To me the Muse his tender plea convey'd,<br>But smooth'd and suited to the sounding lyre.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Why am I ravish'd from my native strand?<br>What savage race protects this impious gain?<br>Shall foreign plagues infest this teeming land,<br>And more than seaborn monsters plough the main?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Here the dire locusts' horrid swarms prevail;<br>Here the blue asps with livid poison swell;<br>Here the dry dipsa writhes his sinuous mail;<br>Can we not here secure from envy dwell?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'When the grim Lion urged his cruel chase,<br>When the stern Panther sought his midnight prey,<br>What fate reserved me for this Christian race?<br>A race more polish'd, more severe than they!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Ye prowling Wolves! pursue my latest cries;<br>Thou hungry Tiger! leave thy reeking den;<br>Ye sandy Wastes! in rapid eddies rise;<br>Tear me from the whips and scorns of men!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Yet in their face superior beauty glows;<br>Are smiles the mien of Rapine and of Wrong?<br>Yet from their lip the voice of mercy flows,<br>And even religion dwells upon their tongue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Of blissful haunts they tell, and brighter climes,<br>Where gentle maids, convey'd by Death, repair,<br>But stain'd with blood, and crimson'd o'er with crimes,<br>Say, shall they merit what they paint so fair?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'No; careless, hopeless of those fertile plains,<br>Rich by our toils, and by our sorrows gay,<br>They ply our labours, and enhance our pains,<br>And feign these distant regions to repay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'For them our tusky elephant expires;<br>For them we drain the mine's embowell'd gold;<br>Where rove the brutal nation's wild desires?-<br>Our limbs are purchased, and our life is sold!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Yet shores there are, bless'd shores for us remain,<br>And favour'd isles, with golden fruitage crown'd,<br>Where tufted flowerets paint the verdant plain,<br>Where every breeze shall med'cine every wound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'There the stern tyrant that embitters life,<br>Shall, vainly suppliant, spread his asking hand;<br>There shall we view the billows' raging strife,<br>Aid the kind breast, and waft his boat to land.'</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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What myriads, wish to be as blessed as I!

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