<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118673" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ma Belle</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The world is full of charm, ma belle,<br>And blithe as you are young;<br>It echoes with a silver note<br>The lispings of your tongue;<br>It lays upon your fairy hand<br>A touch as light as down;<br>It smiles approval, and, ma belle,<br>You have not felt its frown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The world is very rich, ma belle,<br>And all its gifts are yours.<br>It bows before you, little one,<br>And while the mood endures,<br>With roses, freshly garlanded,<br>Your pathway bright adorns;<br>But roses fade, ma belle, ma belle—<br>And there are left the thorns!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To snare your feet, the world, ma belle,<br>Has spread a shining net,<br>What wonder then, believing child,<br>If you awhile forget,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Midst suitors who to-night adore,<br>And may to-morrow range,<br>A love that has been always yours—<br>A love that cannot change!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What wonder!—still they whisper praise,<br>And I have oft reproved;<br>Of love they speak with eloquence,<br>And I have only loved.<br>Sometimes, alas, I envy them,<br>Yet in the days to be,<br>You may forget them all, ma belle—<br>But will remember me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Florence+Earle+Coates">Florence Earle Coates</a> from <i>Poems</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=118673" data-title="Ma Belle de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="The world is full of charm, ma belle,/And blithe as you are young;/It echoes with a silver note/The lispings of your tongue;/It lays upon your fairy hand/A touch as light as down;/It smiles approval, and, ma belle,/You have not felt its frown./The..."></div> </div> </div>

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