<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477915" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wooing</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A YOUTH went faring up and down,<br>Alack and well-a-day.<br>He fared him to the market town,<br>Alack and well-a-day.<br>And there he met a maiden fair,<br>With hazel eyes and auburn hair;<br>His heart went from him then and there,<br>Alack and well-a-day.<br>She posies sold right merrily,<br>Alack and well-a-day;<br>But not a flower was fair as she,<br>Alack and well-a-day.<br>He bought a rose and sighed a sigh,<br>'Ah, dearest maiden, would that I<br>Might dare the seller too to buy!'<br>Alack and well-a-day.<br>She tossed her head, the coy coquette,<br>Alack and well-a-day.<br>'I'm not, sir, in the market yet,'<br>Alack and well-a-day.<br>'Your love must cool upon a shelf;<br>Tho' much I sell for gold and pelf,<br>I'm yet too young to sell myself,'<br>Alack and well-a-day.<br>The youth was filled with sorrow sore,<br>Alack and well-a-day;<br>And looked he at the maid once more,<br>Alack and well-a-day.<br>Then loud he cried, 'Fair maiden, if<br>Too young to sell, now as I live,<br>You're not too young yourself to give,'<br>Alack and well-a-day.<br>The little maid cast down her eyes,<br>Alack and well-a-day,<br>And many a flush began to rise,<br>Alack and well-a-day. <br>'Why, since you are so bold,' she said,<br>'I doubt not you are highly bred,<br>So take me!' and the twain were wed,<br>Alack and well-a-day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</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=477915" data-title="The Wooing de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="A YOUTH went faring up and down, Alack and well-a-day. He fared him to the market town, Alack and well-a-day. And there he met a maiden fair, With hazel eyes and auburn hair; His heart went from him then and there, Alack and well-a-day. She posies..."></div> </div> </div>

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