<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357450" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Benalla</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A country lass with rosy cheeks,<br>A healthy maid with merry ways;<br>Labor 'mid loveliness she seeks,<br>And strives to crowd with joy her days.<br>For she was raised upon a farm;<br>Upon a farm she grew in grace,<br>And in that clear air won this charm,<br>This sweet allure of form and face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where she had won the art to grow,<br>About her house, about her door,<br>Such loveliness as these days show,<br>Ask of the years that went before.<br>But learn she did, as scenes attest<br>By tree-girt lawn and flowery way,<br>Even her bridge-heads flank some nest<br>Of nodding roses, richly gay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beyond her home the wheatlands roll,<br>To yield their tithes upon her dower;<br>Yet, 'spite her soft, aesthetic soul,<br>She gives not all to field and flower.<br>For, show the lass a well-set horse;<br>Show her a dog with grace or speed;<br>Set her upon some sunlit course,<br>And she knows full content indeed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A country lass with rosy cheeks,<br>Deft and delightful, who can be<br>A hostess rare to one who seeks<br>Her kindly hospitality.<br>And here she reigns, a queen indeed,<br>About her flowery realm to ride,<br>Mounted upon a well-bred steed,<br>A good hound trotting by her side.</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=357450" data-title="Benalla de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="A country lass with rosy cheeks, A healthy maid with merry ways; Labor 'mid loveliness she seeks, And strives to crowd with joy her days. For she was raised upon a farm; Upon a farm she grew in grace, And in that clear air won this charm, This swe..."></div> </div> </div>

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