<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539304" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Song III. - Ye gentle Nymphs and generous Dames</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye gentle Nymphs and generous Dames,<br>That rule o'er every British mind!<br>Be sure ye soothe their amorous flames,<br>Be sure your laws are not unkind:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For hard it is to wear their bloom<br>In unremitting sighs away;<br>To mourn the night's oppressive gloom,<br>And faintly bless the rising day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And cruel 'twere a freeborn swain,<br>A British youth, should vainly moan;<br>Who, scornful of a tyrant's chain,<br>Submits to yours, and yours alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor pointed spear, nor links of steel,<br>Could e'er those gallant minds subdue,<br>Who Beauty's wounds with pleasure feel,<br>And boast the fetters wrought by you.</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=539304" data-title="Song III. - Ye gentle Nymphs and generous Dames de William Shenstone" data-description="Ye gentle Nymphs and generous Dames, That rule o'er every British mind! Be sure ye soothe their amorous flames, Be sure your laws are not unkind: For hard it is to wear their bloom In unremitting sighs away; To mourn the night's oppressive gloom,..."></div> </div> </div>

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