<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540309" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Letter of Advice</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You tell me you're promised a lover, <br>My own Araminta, next week; <br>Why cannot my fancy discover <br>The hue of his coat, and his cheek? <br>Alas! if he look like another, <br>A vicar, a banker, a beau, <br>Be deaf to your father and mother, <br>My own Araminta, say 'No!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Miss Lane, at her Temple of Fashion, <br>Taught us both how to sing and to speak, <br>And we loved one another with passion, <br>Before we had been there a week: <br>You gave me a ring for a token; <br>I wear it wherever I go; <br>I gave you a chain, - it is broken? <br>My own Araminta, say 'No!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O think of our favorite cottage, <br>And think of our dear Lalla Rookh! <br>How we shared with the milkmaids their pottage, <br>And drank of the stream from the brook; <br>How fondly our loving lips faltered, <br>'What further can grandeur bestow?' <br>My heart is the same; - is yours altered? <br>My own Araminta, say 'No!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Remember the thrilling romances <br>We read on the bank in the glen; <br>Remember the suitors our fancies <br>Would picture for both of us then; <br>They wore the red cross on their shoulder, <br>They had vanquished and pardoned their foe - <br>Sweet friend, are you wiser or colder? <br>My own Araminta, say 'No!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Winthrop+Mackworth+Praed">Winthrop Mackworth Praed</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=540309" data-title="A Letter of Advice de Winthrop Mackworth Praed" data-description="You tell me you're promised a lover, My own Araminta, next week; Why cannot my fancy discover The hue of his coat, and his cheek? Alas! if he look like another, A vicar, a banker, a beau, Be deaf to your father and mother, My own Araminta, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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