<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510025" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To A Young Girl With An Album</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gentle Lily with this Album my warmest wishes take,<br>I know its pages oft thou’lt ope and prize it for my sake,<br>For, though a trifling offering, it bears the magic spell<br>Of coming from the hand of one who loves thee passing well. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O could thy young life’s course be traced by will or wish of mine,<br>A smiling, joyous future—a bright lot would be thine,<br>No cloud should mar the gladness of thy fair youth’s op’ning morn,<br>The roses of thy girlhood should be free from blight or thorn. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Howe’er, ’tis better ordered by a Blessed Power above<br>Who sends us cross and trial, as a token of His Love;<br>For we’d cling, ah! far too closely to earthly joys and ties,<br>Unwilling e’er to leave them for our home beyond the skies. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As the pages of this volume, unwritten, stainless, fair,<br>Life opens out before thee, let it be thine aim and care<br>To keep the record spotless, and ever free from all<br>That thou might’st wish hereafter remorseful to recall. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not seeking to o’ershadow thy smiling azure eyes,<br>Nor see that girlish bosom heave with sad thoughts and sighs,<br>I would whisper low, while wishing thee, all earthly, cloudless bliss,<br>Be life a preparation for a better life than this!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rosanna+Eleanor+Leprohon">Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon</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=510025" data-title="To A Young Girl With An Album de Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon" data-description="Gentle Lily with this Album my warmest wishes take, I know its pages oft thou’lt ope and prize it for my sake, For, though a trifling offering, it bears the magic spell Of coming from the hand of one who loves thee passing well. O could thy yo..."></div> </div> </div>

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