<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535377" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Veil</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I think and think: yet still I fail — <br>Why must this lady wear a veil?<br>Why thus elect to mask her face<br>Beneath that dainty web of lace?<br>The tip of a small nose I see,<br>And two red lips, set curiously<br>Like twin-born berries on one stem,<br>And yet, she has netted even them.<br>Her eyes, 'tis plain, survey with ease<br>Whate'er to glance upon they please.<br>Yet, whether hazel, gray, or blue,<br>Or that even lovelier lilac hue,<br>I cannot guess: why — why deny<br>Such beauty to the passer-by?<br>Out of a bush a nightingale<br>May expound his song; from 'neath that veil<br>A happy mouth no doubt can make<br>English sound sweeter for its sake.<br>But then, why muffle in like this<br>What every blossomy wind would kiss?<br>Why in that little night disguise<br>A daybreak face, those starry eyes?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walter+de+la+Mare">Walter de la Mare</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=535377" data-title="The Veil de Walter de la Mare" data-description="I think and think: yet still I fail — Why must this lady wear a veil? Why thus elect to mask her face Beneath that dainty web of lace? The tip of a small nose I see, And two red lips, set curiously Like twin-born berries on one stem, And yet, s..."></div> </div> </div>

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