<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384598" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Belle's Soliloquy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heigh Ho! Well, the season’s over! <br> Once again we’ve come to Lent! <br>Programme’s changes from balls and parties –<br> Now we’re ordered to repent.<br>Forty days of self-denial! <br> Tell you what, I think it pays –<br>Know’t’l freshen my complexion<br> Going slow for forty days.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No more savoury French suppers –<br> Such as Madame R- can give.<br>Well, I need a little thinning –<br> Just a trifle – sure’s you live! <br>Sometimes been afraid my plumpness<br> Might grow into downright fat.<br>Rector urges need of fasting –<br> Think there’s lot of truth in that.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We must meditate, he tells us, <br> On our several acts of sin, <br>And repent them. Let me see now –<br> Whereabouts shall I begin! <br>Flirting – yes, they say ‘tis wicked; <br> Well, I’m awful penitent.<br>(Wonder if my handsome major<br> Goes to early Mass though Lent?) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love of dress! I’m guilty there too –<br> Guess it’s my besetting sin.<br>Still I’m somewhat like the lillies, <br> For I neither toil or spin.<br>Forty days I’ll wear my plainest –<br> Could repentance be more true? <br>What a saving on my dresses! <br> They’ll make over just like new.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pride, and worldliness and all that, <br> Rector bade us pray about<br>Every day through Lenten season, <br> And I mean to be devout! <br>Papa always talks entrenchment –<br> Lent is just the very thing.<br>Hope he’ll get enough in pocket<br> So we’ll move up town next spring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</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=384598" data-title="The Belle's Soliloquy de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="Heigh Ho! Well, the season’s over! Once again we’ve come to Lent! Programme’s changes from balls and parties – Now we’re ordered to repent. Forty days of self-denial! Tell you what, I think it pays – Know’t’l freshen my compl..."></div> </div> </div>

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