<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519699" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lay of Poor Louise</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, poor Louise! the livelong day<br>She roams from cot to castle gay;<br>And still her voice and viol say,<br>Ah, maids, beware the woodland way,<br>Think on Louise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, poor Louise! The sun was high,<br>It smirch'd her cheek, it dimm'd her eye,<br>The woodland walk was cool and nigh,<br>Where birds with chiming streamlets vie<br>To cheer Louise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, poor Louise! The savage bear<br>Made ne'er that lovely grove his lair;<br>The wolves molest not paths so fair-<br>But better far had such been there<br>For poor Louise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, poor Louise! In woody wold<br>She met a huntsman fair and bold;<br>His baldric was of silk and gold,<br>And many a witching tale he told<br>To poor Louise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, poor Louise! Small cause to pine<br>Hadst thou for treasures of the mine;<br>For peace of mind that gift divine,<br>And spotless innocence, were thine, <br>Ah, poor Louise!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, poor Louise! Thy treasure's reft!<br>I know not if by force or theft,<br>Or part by violence, part by gift; <br>But misery is all that's left<br>To poor Louise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let poor Louise some succour have!<br>She will not long your bounty crave,<br>Or tire the gay with warning stave-<br>For Heaven has grace, and earth a grave,<br>Poor poor Louise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sir+Walter+Scott">Sir Walter Scott</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=519699" data-title="The Lay of Poor Louise de Sir Walter Scott" data-description="Ah, poor Louise! the livelong day She roams from cot to castle gay; And still her voice and viol say, Ah, maids, beware the woodland way, Think on Louise. Ah, poor Louise! The sun was high, It smirch'd her cheek, it dimm'd her eye, The woodland w..."></div> </div> </div>

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