<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567544" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Seeing A Certain Advertisement</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">SO then farewell ye fugitive delights,<br>Ye glassy splendours, once so much enjoy'd,<br>And hop'd more lasting O my halcyon days,<br>Whose pleasing round of gay felicities<br>The wisest had beguil'd farewell for ever!<br>So the pleas'd child who hath a bubble rais'd,<br>Joys in the airy globe, and views, surpris'd,<br>The gaudy colours, that its surface shows;<br>But ere his raptur'd eye beholds his face<br>In the slight mirror, with a sudden burst<br>It vanishes, and can be found no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Maria+Frances+Cecilia+Cowper">Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper</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=567544" data-title="On Seeing A Certain Advertisement de Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper" data-description="SO then farewell ye fugitive delights, Ye glassy splendours, once so much enjoy'd, And hop'd more lasting O my halcyon days, Whose pleasing round of gay felicities The wisest had beguil'd farewell for ever! So the pleas'd child who hath a bubble r..."></div> </div> </div>

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