<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357447" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Beauty's Blemish</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are as young, O lady mine,<br>As ere you were in olden days,<br>Your lips are red, your blue eyes shine,<br>And still you have your girlish ways.<br>I hate to think what years have flown<br>Since first I praised these things, mine own.<br> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your frocks still have that youthful cut,<br>Garbing a svelte form, slim and flat.<br>You should be spreading, darling but<br>Your middle-age has brought no fat.<br>Indeed, you sometimes seem at nights<br>A flapper, seen in certain lights.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>My fond eyes have surveyed you, sweet,<br>Thro' all these years and found no fault.<br>Your lustrous hair, your tiny feet<br>Are still perfection. Yet a halt<br>In my high praise wakes sudden fears:<br>You're growing old behind the ears!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Yet, even then, I'd not repine<br>If that grey matter which should fill<br>That pretty head, O lady mine,<br>Gained age, 'twere compensation still;<br>And I'd forgive the ravening years,<br>If you'd mature above the ears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</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=357447" data-title="Beauty's Blemish de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="You are as young, O lady mine, As ere you were in olden days, Your lips are red, your blue eyes shine, And still you have your girlish ways. I hate to think what years have flown Since first I praised these things, mine own. Your frocks still h..."></div> </div> </div>

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