<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538922" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An English Girl</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A wonderful joy our eyes to bless,<br>In her magnificent comeliness,<br>Is an English girl of eleven stone two,<br>And five foot ten in her dancing shoe!<br>She follows the hounds, and on she pounds -<br>The &quot;field&quot; tails off and the muffs diminish -<br>Over the hedges and brooks she bounds -<br>Straight as a crow, from find to finish.<br>At cricket, her kin will lose or win -<br>She and her maids, on grass and clover,<br>Eleven maids out - eleven maids in -<br>(And perhaps an occasional &quot;maiden over&quot;).<br>Go search the world and search the sea,<br>Then come you home and sing with me<br>There's no such gold and no such pearl<br>As a bright and beautiful English girl!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With a ten-mile spin she stretches her limbs,<br>She golfs, she punts, she rows, she swims -<br>She plays, she sings, she dances, too,<br>From ten or eleven till all is blue!<br>At ball or drum, till small hours come<br>(Chaperon's fan conceals her yawning),<br>She'll waltz away like a teetotum,<br>And never go home till daylight's dawning.<br>Lawn tennis may share her favours fair -<br>Her eyes a-dance and her cheeks a-glowing -<br>Down comes her hair, but what does she care?<br>It's all her own and it's worth the showing!<br>Go search the world and search the sea,<br>Then come you home and sing with me<br>There's no such gold and no such pearl<br>As a bright and beautiful English girl!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her soul is sweet as the ocean air,<br>For prudery knows no haven there;<br>To find mock-modesty, please apply<br>To the conscious blush and the downcast eye.<br>Rich in the things contentment brings,<br>In every pure enjoyment wealthy,<br>Blithe as a beautiful bird she sings,<br>For body and mind are hale and healthy.<br>Her eyes they thrill with right goodwill -<br>Her heart is light as a floating feather -<br>As pure and bright as the mountain rill<br>That leaps and laughs in the Highland heather!<br>Go search the world and search the sea,<br>Then come you home and sing with me<br>There's no such gold and no such pearl<br>As a bright and beautiful English girl!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Schwenck+Gilbert">William Schwenck Gilbert</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=538922" data-title="An English Girl de William Schwenck Gilbert" data-description="A wonderful joy our eyes to bless, In her magnificent comeliness, Is an English girl of eleven stone two, And five foot ten in her dancing shoe! She follows the hounds, and on she pounds - The &quot;field&quot; tails off and the muffs diminish - O..."></div> </div> </div>

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