<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341398" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Impromptu: To Frances Garnet Wolseley</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Little maiden just beginning<br>To be comely, arch, and winning,<br>In whose form I catch the traces<br>Of your mother's gifts and graces,<br>And around whose head the glory<br>Of your father's growing story,<br>O'er whose cradle, fortune-guided,<br>Mars and Venus both presided,<br>May your fuller years inherit<br>Female charm and manly merit,<br>So that all may know who girt you<br>With vivacity and virtue,<br>Whence you had the luck to borrow<br>Pensive mien without its sorrow,<br>Dignity devoid of coldness,<br>Sprightliness without its boldness,<br>Raillery untipped by malice,<br>Playful wit and kindly sallies,<br>Eloquence averse from railing,<br>Each good point without its failing.<br>And when, little bud, you flower<br>Into maidenhood and power,<br>Fate no fainter heart allot you<br>Than the brave one that begot you,<br>So that you a race continue<br>Worthy of the blood within you,<br>Handing down the gifts you bring them,<br>With a better bard to sing them.</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=341398" data-title="Impromptu: To Frances Garnet Wolseley de Alfred Austin" data-description="Little maiden just beginning To be comely, arch, and winning, In whose form I catch the traces Of your mother's gifts and graces, And around whose head the glory Of your father's growing story, O'er whose cradle, fortune-guided, Mars and Venus bot..."></div> </div> </div>

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