<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539320" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Halcyon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why o'er the verdant banks of Ouse<br>Does yonder Halcyon speed so fast?<br>'Tis all because she would not lose<br>Her favourite calm, that will not last.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sun with azure paints the skies,<br>The stream reflects each flowery spray,<br>And, frugal of her time, she flies<br>To take her fill of love and play!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">See her, when rugged Boreas blows,<br>Warm in some rocky cell remain;<br>To seek for pleasure, well she knows,<br>Would only then enhance the pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Descend,' she cries, 'thou hated shower,<br>Deform my limpid waves to-day,<br>For I have chose a fairer hour<br>To take my fill of love and play!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You, too, my Silvia, sure will own<br>Life's azure seasons swiftly roll,<br>And when our youth or health is flown,<br>To think of love, but shocks the soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could Damon but deserve thy charms,<br>As thou art Damon's only theme;<br>He'd fly as quick to Celia's arms<br>As yonder Halcyon stems the stream.</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=539320" data-title="The Halcyon de William Shenstone" data-description="Why o'er the verdant banks of Ouse Does yonder Halcyon speed so fast? 'Tis all because she would not lose Her favourite calm, that will not last. The sun with azure paints the skies, The stream reflects each flowery spray, And, frugal of her time..."></div> </div> </div>

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