<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341368" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dedication To The Edition Of 1876 To H.J.A.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Three graces still attend me, since the day<br>Your step across my graceless threshold came:<br>Reverence, and Gratitude, and Love, their name.<br>Reverence, whose gaze fears from the ground to stray,<br>And bows its head, and sues to you to lay<br>Your foot thereon, and keep my base self down:<br>Next, Gratitude, that, bolder, by degrees<br>Creeps up the folds of wedlock's rescuing gown,<br>To make a circling fondness round your knees;<br>And lastly, Love, which from that low perch sees<br>Chaste lips, and tender eyes, and tresses brown,<br>And, darting upward, finds a home with these.<br>So stand we level in that high embrace,<br>And I have all your glory on my face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Austin">Alfred Austin</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=341368" data-title="Dedication To The Edition Of 1876 To H.J.A. de Alfred Austin" data-description="Three graces still attend me, since the day Your step across my graceless threshold came: Reverence, and Gratitude, and Love, their name. Reverence, whose gaze fears from the ground to stray, And bows its head, and sues to you to lay Your foot the..."></div> </div> </div>

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