<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115949" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A New England Valentine</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, SWEET little maid of a Puritan line,<br>O, dear little maid of a Puritan town,<br>On the morn of that saint whom they name Valentine,<br>I am asking a boon,—and I pray do not frown;<br>For, coy little Puritan maid of to-day,<br>I ask but a quaint little Puritan "Yea."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look around on the walls of your Puritan home,<br>Where your prim lady ancestors hang in a row,<br>In quaint little kerchiefs, in cap and in comb;<br>Take counsel by them, dear, for well do you know<br>You would not be here, little maiden, to-day<br>If they had not spoken that Purtian "Yea."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your pride is in them, and your faith and your love;<br>Ah, is there not some overflowing for me?<br>They lived long ago, and they hang far above,<br>I am nearer and younger,—Ah, cannot it be?<br>Then send me an answer this Valentine's day,<br>But pray it be not that cold Puritan "Nay!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Abbie+Farwell+Brown">Abbie Farwell Brown</a> from <i>The New England Magazine / Volume 21, Issue 6</i><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=115949" data-title="A New England Valentine de Abbie Farwell Brown" data-description="O, SWEET little maid of a Puritan line,/O, dear little maid of a Puritan town,/On the morn of that saint whom they name Valentine,/I am asking a boon,—and I pray do not frown;/For, coy little Puritan maid of to-day,/I ask but a quaint little Pur..."></div> </div> </div>

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