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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539030" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Modest Couple</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When man and maiden meet, I like to see a drooping eye,<br>I always droop my own - I am the shyest of the shy.<br>I'm also fond of bashfulness, and sitting down on thorns,<br>For modesty's a quality that womankind adorns.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whenever I am introduced to any pretty maid,<br>My knees they knock together, just as if I were afraid;<br>I flutter, and I stammer, and I turn a pleasing red,<br>For to laugh, and flirt, and ogle I consider most ill-bred.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But still in all these matters, as in other things below,<br>There is a proper medium, as I'm about to show.<br>I do not recommend a newly-married pair to try<br>To carry on as PETER carried on with SARAH BLIGH.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Betrothed they were when very young - before they'd learnt to speak<br>(For SARAH was but six days old, and PETER was a week);<br>Though little more than babies at those early ages, yet<br>They bashfully would faint when they occasionally met.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They blushed, and flushed, and fainted, till they reached the<br>age of nine,<br>When PETER'S good papa (he was a Baron of the Rhine)<br>Determined to endeavour some sound argument to find<br>To bring these shy young people to a proper frame of mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He told them that as SARAH was to be his PETER'S bride,<br>They might at least consent to sit at table side by side;<br>He begged that they would now and then shake hands, till he<br>was hoarse,<br>Which SARAH thought indelicate, and PETER very coarse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And PETER in a tremble to the blushing maid would say,<br>&quot;You must excuse papa, MISS BLIGH, - it is his mountain way.&quot;<br>Says SARAH, &quot;His behaviour I'll endeavour to forget,<br>But your papa's the coarsest person that I ever met.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;He plighted us without our leave, when we were very young,<br>Before we had begun articulating with the tongue.<br>His underbred suggestions fill your SARAH with alarm;<br>Why, gracious me! he'll ask us next to walk out arm-in-arm!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At length when SARAH reached the legal age of twenty-one,<br>The Baron he determined to unite her to his son;<br>And SARAH in a fainting-fit for weeks unconscious lay,<br>And PETER blushed so hard you might have heard him miles away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when the time arrived for taking SARAH to his heart,<br>They were married in two churches half-a-dozen miles apart<br>(Intending to escape all public ridicule and chaff),<br>And the service was conducted by electric telegraph.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when it was concluded, and the priest had said his say,<br>Until the time arrived when they were both to drive away,<br>They never spoke or offered for to fondle or to fawn,<br>For HE waited in the attic, and SHE waited on the lawn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At length, when four o'clock arrived, and it was time to go,<br>The carriage was announced, but decent SARAH answered &quot;No!<br>Upon my word, I'd rather sleep my everlasting nap,<br>Than go and ride alone with MR. PETER in a trap.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And PETER'S over-sensitive and highly-polished mind<br>Wouldn't suffer him to sanction a proceeding of the kind;<br>And further, he declared he suffered overwhelming shocks<br>At the bare idea of having any coachman on the box.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So PETER into one turn-out incontinently rushed,<br>While SARAH in a second trap sat modestly and blushed;<br>And MR. NEWMAN'S coachman, on authority I've heard,<br>Drove away in gallant style upon the coach-box of a third.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, though this modest couple in the matter of the car<br>Were very likely carrying a principle too far,<br>I hold their shy behaviour was more laudable in them<br>Than that of PETER'S brother with MISS SARAH'S sister EM.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ALPHONSO, who in cool assurance all creation licks,<br>He up and said to EMMIE (who had impudence for six),<br>&quot;MISS EMILY, I love you - will you marry? Say the word!&quot;<br>And EMILY said, &quot;Certainly, ALPHONSO, like a bird!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I do not recommend a newly-married pair to try<br>To carry on as PETER carried on with SARAH BLIGH,<br>But still their shy behaviour was more laudable in them<br>Than that of PETER'S brother with MISS SARAH'S sister EM.</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>
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I always droop my own - I am the shyest of the shy.
I'm also fond of bashfulness, and sitting down on thorns,
For modesty's a quality that womankind adorns.

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