<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508273" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dark Glasses</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweet maiden, why disguise<br>The beauty of your eyes<br> With glasses black?<br>Although I'm well aware<br>That you are more than fair,<br> Allure you lack.<br>For as I stare at you<br>I ask if brown or blue<br> Your optics are?<br>But though I cannot see,<br>I'm sure that each must be<br> Bright as a star.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That may be green or grey,<br>'Tis very hard to say,<br> Or violet;<br>The lovelight in their glow<br>Alas, I'll never know,<br> To my regret.<br>In some rhyme-book I've read,<br>A lady bard has said,<br> And deemed it true,<br>Men will not bite the necks<br>Of sweeties who wear specs,--<br> Young man, would you?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But though they balk romance,<br>Columbus took a chance,<br> And so would I;<br>Even with orbs unseen<br>I'd fain make you my queen<br> And you en-sky.<br>Alas I see you go,<br>And I will never know<br> Your pupils tint;<br>So o'er a lonely drink<br>I force myself to think:<br> Damsel, you squint!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</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=508273" data-title="Dark Glasses de Robert William Service" data-description="Sweet maiden, why disguise The beauty of your eyes With glasses black? Although I'm well aware That you are more than fair, Allure you lack. For as I stare at you I ask if brown or blue Your optics are? But though I cannot see, I'm sure that ea..."></div> </div> </div>

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