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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539296" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode, written 1739</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Urit spes animi credula mutui.-Hor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Imitation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fond hope of a reciprocal desire<br>Inflames the breast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Twas not by beauty's aid alone<br>That Love usurp'd his airy throne,<br>His boasted power display'd;<br>'Tis kindness that secures his aim,<br>'Tis hope that feeds the kindling flame<br>Which beauty first convey'd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Clara's eyes the lightning view;<br>Her lips with all the rose's hue<br>Have all its sweets combined;<br>Yet vain the blush, and faint the fire,<br>Till lips at once, and eyes, conspire<br>To prove the charmer kind--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though wit might gild the tempting snare<br>With softest accent, sweetest air,<br>By envy's self admired;<br>If Lesbia's wit betray'd her scorn,<br>In vain might every Grace adorn<br>What every Muse inspired.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus airy Strephon tuned his lyre-<br>He scorn'd the pangs of wild desire,<br>Which lovesick swains endure;<br>Resolved to brave the keenest dart,<br>Since frowns could never wound his heart;<br>And smiles-must ever cure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, ah! how false these maxims prove,<br>How frail security from love,<br>Experience hourly shows;<br>Love can imagined smiles supply;<br>On every charming lip and eye<br>Eternal sweets bestows.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In vain we trust the fair one's eyes;<br>In vain the sage explores the skies,<br>To learn from stars his fate;<br>Till, led by fancy wide astray,<br>He finds no planet mark his way;<br>Convinced and wise-too late.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As partial to their words we prove,<br>Then boldly join the lists of love,<br>With towering hopes supplied:<br>So heroes, taught by doubtful shrines,<br>Mistook their deity's designs;<br>Then took the field-and died.</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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Imitation.

Fond hope of a reciprocal desire
Inflames the breast.


'Twas not by beauty's aid alone
That Love usurp'd his airy throne,
His boasted power display'd;
'Tis kindness that secures his aim,
'Tis hope ..."></div>
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