Click in the field, then press CTRL+C to copy the HTML code
<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=354729" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Noon Quatrains</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=354729" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">THE Day grows hot, and darts his rays <br>From such a sure and killing place, <br>That half this World are fain to fly <br>The danger of his burning eye. <br>His early glories were benign, <br>Warm to be felt, bright to be seen, <br>And all was comfort, but who can <br>Endure him when Meridian? <br>Of him we as of kings complain, <br>Who mildly do begin to reign, <br>But to the Zenith got of pow'r, <br>Those whom they should protect devour. <br>Has not another Phaeton <br>Mounted the chariot of the Sun, <br>And, wanting art to guide his horse, <br>Is hurri'd from the Sun's due course. <br>If this hold on, our fertile lands <br>Will soon be turn'd to parched sands, <br>And not an onion that will grow <br>Without a Nile to overflow. <br>The grazing herds now droop and pant, <br>E'en without labour fit to faint, <br>And willingly forsook their meat<br>[food] <br>To seek out cover from the heat. <br>The lagging ox is no unbound, <br>From larding<br>the new turn'd up ground, [pressing down] <br>Whilst Hobbinal alike o'er-laid<br>, [burdened] <br>Takes his coarse dinner to the shade. <br>Cellars and grottos now are best <br>To eat and drink in, or to rest, <br>And not a soul above is found <br>Can find a refuge under ground. <br>When pagan tyranny grew hot, <br>Thus persecuted Christians got <br>Into the dark but friendly womb <br>Of unknown subterranean Rome<br>. [the Roman catacombs] <br>And as that heat did cool at last, <br>So a few scorching hours o'er-pass'd, <br>In a more mild and temp'rate ray <br>We may again enjoy the Day.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Charles+Cotton">Charles Cotton</a></strong></div>