<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539339" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Valentine's Day</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis said that under distant skies,<br>Nor you the fact deny,<br>What first attracts an Indian's eyes<br>Becomes his deity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps a lily, or a rose,<br>That shares the morning's ray,<br>May to the waking swain disclose<br>The regent of the day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps a plant in yonder grove,<br>Enrich'd with fragrant power,<br>May tempt his vagrant eyes to rove<br>Where blooms the sovereign flower.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perch'd on the cedar's topmost bough,<br>And gay with gilded wings,<br>Perchance, the patron of his vow,<br>Some artless linnet sings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The swain surveys her pleased, afraid,<br>Then low to earth he bends;<br>And owns, upon her friendly aid,<br>His health, his life depends.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Vain futile idols, bird or flower,<br>To tempt a votary's prayer!-<br>How would his humble homage tower<br>Should he behold my fair!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes-might the Pagan's waking eyes,<br>O'er Flavia's beauty range,<br>He there would fix his lasting choice,<br>Nor dare, nor wish, to change.</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=539339" data-title="Valentine's Day de William Shenstone" data-description="'Tis said that under distant skies, Nor you the fact deny, What first attracts an Indian's eyes Becomes his deity. Perhaps a lily, or a rose, That shares the morning's ray, May to the waking swain disclose The regent of the day. Perhaps a plant ..."></div> </div> </div>

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