<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537547" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Apology To Delia: For Desiring A Lock Of Her Hair</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Delia, the unkindest girl on earth,<br>When I besought the fair,<br>That favour of intrinsic worth<br>A ringlet of her hair,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Refused that instant to comply<br>With my absurd request,<br>For reasons she could specify,<br>Some twenty score at least.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trust me, my dear, however odd<br>It may appear to say,<br>I sought it merely to defraud<br>Thy spoiler of his prey.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes! when its sister locks shall fade,<br>As quickly fade they must,<br>When all their beauties are decayed,<br>Their gloss, their colour, lost&mdash; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah then! if haply to my share<br>Some slender pittance fall,<br>If I but gain one single hair,<br>Nor age usurp them all;&mdash; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When you behold it still as sleek,<br>As lovely to the view,<br>As when it left thy snowy neck,<br>That Eden where it grew,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then shall my Delia's self declare<br>That I professed the truth,<br>And have preserved my little share<br>In everlasting youth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</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=537547" data-title="Apology To Delia: For Desiring A Lock Of Her Hair de William Cowper" data-description="Delia, the unkindest girl on earth, When I besought the fair, That favour of intrinsic worth A ringlet of her hair, Refused that instant to comply With my absurd request, For reasons she could specify, Some twenty score at least. Trust me, my de..."></div> </div> </div>

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