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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When do a daughters duties cease storypoem</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When do a daughters duties cease? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wilt thou remain immaculate? <br> enamoured of the virgin state.<br>Remain always inviolate.<br> Art thou so sure this is thy fate? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wilt thou reject matrimony<br> to moulder in some nunnery<br>Thou shouldst consider carefully<br>What such a future holds for thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or is it as thy sire says.<br>That passing time will change thy ways<br>Endowing thee with greater grace.<br>Prepared to take thy rightful place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy sire hath great plans for thee.<br>To see thee married happily <br>accepted by society.<br>This the future he can see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Forget thy childish fantasy<br>Thou clingest to so stubbornly.<br>A cloistered life is not for thee<br>Thou lovest not austerity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He now accepts regretfully <br>he overspent outrageously<br>To get thee wed successfully<br>The price of pride is penury.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To have a titled son in law<br>Won’t keep the bailiff from the door.<br>Nor satisfy his creditors<br> who hound him now without remorse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it beneath thy dignity<br> to make some small enquiry.<br> To find out how thy father fares<br>Try to relieve him of his cares.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou livest now in luxury<br> whilst he must live in poverty<br>Hast thou forgot so easily<br>All that thy sire did for thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although he acted foolishly<br> All that he did he did for thee.<br>He well deserves thy gratitude<br> and not thy thoughtless attitude.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou art a titled lady now<br>Perhaps thy husband will allow<br>thee to show thy sire the respect<br> he is entitled to expect.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Restore his fortunes so he can<br> although a sadder wiser man.<br>Again hold up his head with pride.<br>I pray that thou wilt so decide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If not for love for charity<br> He seeketh not thy sympathy.<br> Nor does he seek for recompense<br>He did it all for love of thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lady acted with all speed<br> she and her husband both agreed.<br>Her sire should reside with them<br>It was the perfect stratagem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She thought her sire could agree<br> and still retain his dignity<br> and so it was she could repay<br> her father’s kindness in this way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Is there a moral to this tale<br> or do I write to no avail.<br>I do not know you must decide<br>Was honour truly satisfied? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">17/07/2009<br>http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q>
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Wilt thou remain immaculate? 
 enamoured of the virgin state.
Remain always inviolate.
 Art thou so sure this is thy fate? 

Wilt thou reject matrimony
 to moulder in some nunnery
Thou shouldst consider carefull..."></div>
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