<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536570" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: VIII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AS TO HIS CHOICE OF HER<br>If I had chosen thee, thou shouldst have been<br>A virgin proud, untamed, immaculate,<br>Chaste as the morning star, a saint, a queen,<br>Scarred by no wars, no violence of hate.<br>Thou shouldst have been of soul commensurate<br>With thy fair body, brave and virtuous<br>And kind and just; and, if of poor estate,<br>At least an honest woman for my house.<br>I would have had thee come of honoured blood<br>And honourable nurture. Thou shouldst bear<br>Sons to my pride and daughters to my heart,<br>And men should hold thee happy, wise, and good.<br>Lo, thou art none of this, but only fair.<br>Yet must I love thee, dear, and as thou art.</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=536570" data-title="The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: VIII de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="AS TO HIS CHOICE OF HER If I had chosen thee, thou shouldst have been A virgin proud, untamed, immaculate, Chaste as the morning star, a saint, a queen, Scarred by no wars, no violence of hate. Thou shouldst have been of soul commensurate With thy..."></div> </div> </div>

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