<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416937" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Dearest Frank, I Wish You Joy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My dearest Frank, I wish you joy<br>Of Mary's safety with a Boy,<br>Whose birth has given little pain<br>Compared with that of Mary Jane.--<br>May he a growing Blessing prove,<br>And well deserve his Parents' Love!--<br>Endow'd with Art's and Nature's Good,<br>Thy Name possessing with thy Blood,<br>In him, in all his ways, may we<br>Another Francis WIlliam see!--<br>Thy infant days may he inherit,<br>THey warmth, nay insolence of spirit;--<br>We would not with one foult dispense<br>To weaken the resemblance.<br>May he revive thy Nursery sin,<br>Peeping as daringly within,<br>His curley Locks but just descried,<br>With 'Bet, my be not come to bide.'--<br>Fearless of danger, braving pain,<br>And threaten'd very oft in vain,<br>Still may one Terror daunt his Soul,<br>One needful engine of Controul<br>Be found in this sublime array,<br>A neigbouring Donkey's aweful Bray.<br>So may his equal faults as Child,<br>Produce Maturity as mild!<br>His saucy words and fiery ways<br>In early Childhood's pettish days,<br>In Manhood, shew his Father's mind<br>Like him, considerate and Kind;<br>All Gentleness to those around,<br>And anger only not to wound.<br>Then like his Father too, he must,<br>To his own former struggles just,<br>Feel his Deserts with honest Glow,<br>And all his self-improvement know.<br>A native fault may thus give birth<br>To the best blessing, conscious Worth. <br>As for ourselves we're very well;<br>As unaffected prose will tell.--<br>Cassandra's pen will paint our state,<br>The many comforts that await<br>Our Chawton home, how much we find<br>Already in it, to our mind;<br>And how convinced, that when complete<br>It will all other Houses beat<br>The ever have been made or mended,<br>With rooms concise, or rooms distended.<br>You'll find us very snug next year,<br>Perhaps with Charles and Fanny near,<br>For now it often does delight us<br>To fancy them just over-right us.--</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jane+Austen">Jane Austen</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=416937" data-title="My Dearest Frank, I Wish You Joy de Jane Austen" data-description="My dearest Frank, I wish you joy Of Mary's safety with a Boy, Whose birth has given little pain Compared with that of Mary Jane.-- May he a growing Blessing prove, And well deserve his Parents' Love!-- Endow'd with Art's and Nature's Good, Thy Nam..."></div> </div> </div>

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