<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472528" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Song. For a Temperance Dinner</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a Temperance dinner to which ladies were<br>Invited (new York Mercantile library Association,<br>November, 1842)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>A health to dear woman! She bids us untwine,<br>From the cup it encircles, the fast-clinging vine;<br>But her cheek in its crystal with pleasure will glow,<br>And mirror its bloom in the bright wave below.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A health to sweet woman! The days are no more<br>When she watched for her lord till the revel was o’er,<br>And smoothed the white pillow, and blushed when he came,<br>As she pressed her cold lips on his forehead of flame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas for the loved one! too spotless and fair<br>The joys of his banquet to chasten and share;<br>Her eye lost its light that his goblet might shine,<br>And the rose of her cheek was dissolved in his wine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Joy smiles in the fountain, health flows in the rills,<br>As their ribbons of silver unwind from the hills;<br>They breathe not the mist of the bacchanal’s dream,<br>But the lilies of innocence float on their stream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then a health and a welcome to woman once more! <br>She brings us a passport that laughs at our door;<br>It is written on crimson,—­its letters are pearls,—­<br>It is countersigned Nature.—­So, room for the Girls!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</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=472528" data-title="Song. For a Temperance Dinner de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="For a Temperance dinner to which ladies were Invited (new York Mercantile library Association, November, 1842) A health to dear woman! She bids us untwine, From the cup it encircles, the fast-clinging vine; But her cheek in its crystal with plea..."></div> </div> </div>

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