<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368538" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lettice</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I said to Lettice, our sister Lettice,<br>While drooped and glistened her eyelash brown,<br>'Your man's a poor man, a cold and dour man,<br>There's many a better about our town.'<br>She smiled securely - 'He loves me purely:<br>A true heart's safe, both in smile or frown;<br>And nothing harms me while his love warms me,<br>Whether the world go up or down.'<br>'He comes of strangers, and they are rangers,<br>And ill to trust, girl, when out of sight:<br>Fremd folk may blame ye, and e'en defame ye,<br>A gown oft handled looks seldom white.'<br>She raised serenely her eyelids queenly, -<br>'My innocence is my whitest gown;<br>No harsh tongue grieves me while he believes me,<br>Whether the world go up or down.'<br>'Your man's a frail man, was ne'er a hale man,<br>And sickness knocketh at every door,<br>And death comes making bold hearts cower, breaking -'<br>Our Lettice trembled; - but once, no more.<br>'If death should enter, smite to the center<br>Our poor home palace, all crumbling down,<br>He cannot fright us, nor disunite us,<br>Life bears Love's cross, death brings Love's crown.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dinah+Maria+Mulock+Craik">Dinah Maria Mulock Craik</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=368538" data-title="Lettice de Dinah Maria Mulock Craik" data-description="I said to Lettice, our sister Lettice, While drooped and glistened her eyelash brown, 'Your man's a poor man, a cold and dour man, There's many a better about our town.' She smiled securely - 'He loves me purely: A true heart's safe, both in smile..."></div> </div> </div>

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