<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=456021" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Pastiche</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LOVE, oh, Love's a dainty sweeting, <br>Wooing now, and now retreating; <br>Brightest joy and blackest care, <br>Swift as light, and light as air. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Would you seize and fix and capture <br>All his evanescent rapture? <br>Bind him fast with golden curls, <br>Fetter with a chain of pearls? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Would you catch him in a net, <br>Like a white moth prankt with jet? <br>Clutch him, and his bloomy wing <br>Turns a dead, discoloured thing! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>IV.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pluck him like a rosebud red, <br>And he leaves a thorn instead; <br>Let him go without a care, <br>And he follows unaware. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>V.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love, oh Love's a dainty sweeting, <br>Wooing now, and now retreating; <br>Lightly come, and lightly gone, <br>Lost when most securely won!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mathilde+Blind">Mathilde Blind</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=456021" data-title="Pastiche de Mathilde Blind" data-description="I. LOVE, oh, Love's a dainty sweeting, Wooing now, and now retreating; Brightest joy and blackest care, Swift as light, and light as air. II. Would you seize and fix and capture All his evanescent rapture? Bind him fast with golden curls..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black