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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537634" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines Addressed to Miss Theodora Jane Cowper, On Himself</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">William was once a bashful youth,<br>His modesty was such,<br>That one might say, to say the truth,<br>He rather had too much.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some said that it was want of sense,<br>And others, want of spirit<br>(So blest a thing is impudence),<br>While others could not bear it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But some a different notion had,<br>And, at each other winking,<br>Observed that though he little said,<br>He paid it off with thinking.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Howe’er, it happen’d, by degrees,<br>He mended, and grew perter,<br>In company was more at ease,<br>And dress’d a little smarter;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nay, now and then, could look quite gay,<br>As other people do;<br>And sometimes said, or tried to say,<br>A witty thing or so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He eyed the women, and made free<br>To comment on their shapes,<br>So that there was, or seem’d to be,<br>No fear of a relapse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The women said, who thought him rough,<br>But now no longer foolish,<br>“The creature may do well enough,<br>But wants a deal of polish.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At length improved from head to heel,<br>‘Twere scarce too much to say,<br>No dancing beau was so genteel<br>Or half so <br>dégagé.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Now that a miracle so strange<br>May not in vain be shown,<br>Let the dear maid who wrought the change<br>E’en claim him for her own!</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>
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His modesty was such,
That one might say, to say the truth,
He rather had too much.

Some said that it was want of sense,
And others, want of spirit
(So blest a thing is impudence),
While others could not bear it...."></div>
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