<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539335" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To a Lady of Quality, Fitting Up Her Library</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! what is science, what is art,<br>Or what the pleasure these impart?<br>Ye trophies, which the learn'd pursue<br>Through endless, fruitless toils, adieu!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What can the tedious tomes bestow,<br>To soothe the miseries they show?<br>What like the bliss for him decreed,<br>Who tends his flock and tunes his reed?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Say, wretched Fancy! thus refined<br>From all that glads the simplest hind,<br>How rare that object which supplies<br>A charm for too discerning eyes!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The polish'd bard, of genius vain,<br>Endures a deeper sense of pain;<br>As each invading blast devours<br>The richest fruits, the fairest flowers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sages, with irksome waste of time,<br>The steep ascent of knowledge climb;<br>Then, from the towering heights they scale,<br>Behold contentment range-the vale.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet why, Asteria, tell us why<br>We scorn the crowd when you are nigh?<br>Why then does reason seem so fair,<br>Why learning, then, deserve our care?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who can unpleased your shelves behold,<br>While you so fair a proof unfold,<br>What force the brightest genius draws<br>From polish'd wisdom's written laws?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where are our humbler tenets flown?<br>What strange perfection bids us own<br>That Bliss with toilsome Science dwells,<br>And happiest he who most excels?</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=539335" data-title="To a Lady of Quality, Fitting Up Her Library de William Shenstone" data-description="Ah! what is science, what is art, Or what the pleasure these impart? Ye trophies, which the learn'd pursue Through endless, fruitless toils, adieu! What can the tedious tomes bestow, To soothe the miseries they show? What like the bliss for him d..."></div> </div> </div>

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