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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539326" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Princess Elizabeth, when a prisoner at Woodstock, 1554</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Will you hear how once repining<br>Great Eliza captive lay, <br>Each ambitious thought resigning,<br>Foe to riches, pomp, and sway? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">While the nymphs and swains delighted<br>Tripp'd around in all their pride,<br>Envying joys by others slighted,<br>Thus the royal maiden cried:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Bred on plains, or born in valleys,<br>Who would bid those scenes adieu?<br>Stranger to the arts of malice,<br>Who would ever courts pursue?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Malice never taught to treasure,<br>Censure never taught to bear;<br>Love is all the shepherd's pleasure;<br>Love is all the damsel's care.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How can they of humble station<br>Vainly blame the powers above<br>Or accuse the dispensation<br>Which allows them all to love?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love, like air, is widely given;<br>Power nor chance can these restraint;<br>Truest, noblest, gifts of heaven!<br>Only purest on the plain!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Peers can no such charms discover,<br>All in stars and garters drest,<br>As on Sundays does the lover,<br>With his nosegay on his breast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pinks and roses in profusion,<br>Said to fade when Chloe's near;<br>Fops may use the same allusion,<br>But the shepherd is sincere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hark to yonder milkmaid singing<br>Cheerly o'er the brimming pail,<br>Cowslips all around her springing<br>Sweetly paint the golden vale.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never yet did courtly maiden<br>Move so sprightly, look so fair;<br>Never breast with jewels laden<br>Pour a song so void of care.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Would indulgent heaven had granted<br>Me some rural damsel's part!<br>All the empire I had wanted<br>Then had been my shepherd's heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then with him o'er hills and mountains<br>Free from fetters, might I rove,<br>Fearless taste the crystal fountains,<br>Peaceful sleep beneath the grove.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rustics had been more forgiving,<br>Partial to my virgin bloom;<br>None had envied my when living,<br>None had triumph'd o'er my tomb.'</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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Great Eliza captive lay, 
Each ambitious thought resigning,
Foe to riches, pomp, and sway? 

While the nymphs and swains delighted
Tripp'd around in all their pride,
Envying joys by others slighted,
Thus the royal m..."></div>
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