<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342674" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A 'Scion Of Nobility</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come, sisters, weep!-our Baron dear,<br>Alas! has run away.<br>If always we had kept him here<br>He had not gone astray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Painter and grainer it were vain<br>To say he was, before;<br>And if he were, yet ne'er again<br>He'll darken here a door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We mourn each matrimonial plan<br>Even tradesmen join the cry:<br>He was so promising a man<br>Whenever he did buy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was a fascinating lad,<br>Deny it all who may;<br>Even moneyed men confess he had<br>A very taking way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So from our tables he is gone<br>Our tears descend in showers;<br>We loved the very fat upon.<br>His kidneys, for 'twas ours.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To women he was all respect<br>To duns as cold as ice;<br>No lady could his suit reject,<br>No tailor get its price.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He raised our hope above the sky;<br>Alas! alack! and O!<br>That one who worked it up so high<br>Should play it down so low!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</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=342674" data-title="A 'Scion Of Nobility de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="Come, sisters, weep!-our Baron dear, Alas! has run away. If always we had kept him here He had not gone astray. Painter and grainer it were vain To say he was, before; And if he were, yet ne'er again He'll darken here a door. We mourn each matri..."></div> </div> </div>

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