<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539291" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode to a Young Lady</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Somewhat Too Solicitious about Her Manner of Expression]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Survey, my fair! that lucid stream, <br>Adown the smiling valley stray; <br>Would Art attempt, or Fancy dream, <br>To regulate its winding way? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So pleas'd I view thy shining hair <br>In loose dishevell'd ringlets flow: <br>Not all thy art, not all thy care, <br>Can there one single grace bestow. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Survey again that verdant hill, <br>With native plants enamell'd o'er; <br>Say, can the painter's utmost skill <br>Instruct one flower to please us more? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As vain it were, with artful dye <br>To change the bloom thy cheeks disclose; <br>And oh may Laura, ere she try, <br>With fresh vermilion paint the rose. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hark how the wood-lark's tuneful throat <br>Can every study'd grace excel; <br>Let Art constrain the rambling note, <br>And will she, Laura, please so well? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh ever keep thy native ease, <br>By no pedantic law confin'd! <br>For Laura's voice is form'd to please, <br>So Laura's words be not unkind.</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=539291" data-title="Ode to a Young Lady de William Shenstone" data-description="[Somewhat Too Solicitious about Her Manner of Expression] Survey, my fair! that lucid stream, Adown the smiling valley stray; Would Art attempt, or Fancy dream, To regulate its winding way? So pleas'd I view thy shining hair In loose dishev..."></div> </div> </div>

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