（外文电子版资料）Swift, Johnathan - Cadenas and Vanessa.pdf

Cadenus And Vanessa Jonathan Swift Cadenus And Vanessa Table of Contents Cadenus And Vanessa1 Jonathan Swift1 i Cadenus And Vanessa Jonathan Swift This page copyright © 2001 Blackmask Online. WRITTEN ANNO 1713. THE shepherds and the nymphs were seen Pleading before the Cyprian Queen. The counsel for the fair began Accusing the false creature, man. The brief with weighty crimes was charged, On which the pleader much enlarged: That Cupid now has lost his art, Or blunts the point of every dart; His altar now no longer smokes; His mothers aid no youth invokes This tempts free−thinkers to refine, And bring in doubt their powers divine, Now love is dwindled to intrigue, And marriage grown a money−league. Which crimes aforesaid (with her leave) Were (as he humbly did conceive) Against our Sovereign Ladys peace, Against the statutes in that case, Against her dignity and crown: Then prayed an answer and sat down. The nymphs with scorn beheld their foes: When the defendants counsel rose, And, what no lawyer ever lacked, With impudence owned all the fact. But, what the gentlest heart would vex, Laid all the fault on tother sex. That modern love is no such thing As what those ancient poets sing; A fire celestial, chaste, refined, Conceived and kindled in the mind, Which having found an equal flame, Unites, and both become the same, In different breasts together burn, Together both to ashes turn. But women now feel no such fire, Cadenus And Vanessa 1