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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=359179" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Angel In The House. Book II. The Prologue.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I Her sons pursue the butterflies,<br>Her baby daughter mocks the doves<br>With throbbing coo; in his fond eyes<br>She's Venus with her little Loves;<br>Her footfall dignifies the earth,<br>Her form's the native-land of grace,<br>And, lo, his coming lights with mirth<br>Its court and capital her face!<br>Full proud her favour makes her lord,<br>And that her flatter'd bosom knows.<br>She takes his arm without a word,<br>In lanes of laurel and of rose.<br>Ten years to-day has she been his.<br>He but begins to understand,<br>He says, the dignity and bliss<br>She gave him when she gave her hand.<br>She, answering, says, he disenchants<br>The past, though that was perfect; he<br>Rejoins, the present nothing wants<br>But briefness to be ecstasy.<br>He lauds her charms; her beauty's glow<br>Wins from the spoiler Time new rays; <br>Bright looks reply, approving so<br>Beauty's elixir vitæ, praise.<br>Upon a beech he bids her mark<br>Where, ten years since, he carved her name;<br>It grows there with the growing bark,<br>And in his heart it grows the same.<br>For that her soft arm presses his<br>Close to her fond, maternal breast;<br>He tells her, each new kindness is<br>The effectual sum of all the rest!<br>And, whilst the cushat, mocking, coo'd,<br>They blest the days they had been wed,<br>At cost of those in which he woo'd,<br>Till everything was three times said;<br>And words were growing vain, when Briggs,<br>Factotum, Footman, Butler, Groom,<br>Who press'd the cyder, fed the pigs,<br>Preserv'd the rabbits, drove the brougham,<br>And help'd, at need, to mow the lawns,<br>And sweep the paths and thatch the hay,<br>Here brought the Post down, Mrs. Vaughan's<br>Sole rival, but, for once, to-day,<br>Scarce look'd at; for the ‘Second Book,’<br>Till this tenth festival kept close,<br>Was thus commenced, while o'er them shook<br>The laurel married with the rose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II<br>‘The pulse of War, whose bloody heats<br>‘Sane purposes insanely work,<br>‘Now with fraternal frenzy beats,<br>‘And binds the Christian to the Turk,<br>‘And shrieking fifes’—</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III<br>But, with a roar,<br>In rush'd the Loves; the tallest roll'd<br>A hedgehog from his pinafore,<br>Which saved his fingers; Baby, bold,<br>Touch'd it, and stared, and scream'd for life,<br>And stretch'd her hand for Vaughan to kiss,<br>Who hugg'd his Pet, and ask'd his wife,<br>‘Is this for love, or love for this?’<br>But she turn'd pale, for, lo, the beast,<br>Found stock-still in the rabbit-trap,<br>And feigning so to be deceased,<br>And laid by Frank upon her lap,<br>Unglobed himself, and show'd his snout,<br>And fell, scatt'ring the Loves amain,<br>With shriek, with laughter, and with shout;<br>And, peace at last restored again,<br>The Bard, who this untimely hitch<br>Bore with a calm magnanimous,<br>(The hedgehog roll'd into a ditch,<br>And Venus sooth'd), proceeded thus:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Coventry+Patmore">Coventry Patmore</a><div class=q>
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Her baby daughter mocks the doves
With throbbing coo; in his fond eyes
She's Venus with her little Loves;
Her footfall dignifies the earth,
Her form's the native-land of grace,
And, lo, his coming lights with mir..."></div>
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