<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536422" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XVI</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, 'tis a terrible thing in early youth<br>To be assailed by laughter and mute shame,<br>A terrible thing to be befooled forsooth<br>By one's own foolish face betrayed in flame.<br>The little traitor, when she saw me dumb,<br>Went on to clap her hands, till all and each<br>Took up the jest and called on me to come<br>And prove my courage in the manly breach.<br>The imperious queen stood waiting for me there,<br>Pointing and beckoning, and the crowd closed in.<br>Under the cover of a wilder air<br>From the brass band, the darkness and the din,<br>I know not how it was, in fear or fun,<br>I touched that monster's knee, and all was done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wilfrid+Scawen+Blunt">Wilfrid Scawen Blunt</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=536422" data-title="Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XVI de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="Oh, 'tis a terrible thing in early youth To be assailed by laughter and mute shame, A terrible thing to be befooled forsooth By one's own foolish face betrayed in flame. The little traitor, when she saw me dumb, Went on to clap her hands, till all..."></div> </div> </div>

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