A youth would marry a maiden,
For fair and fond was she;
But their sires disputed about the Mass,
And so it might not be.
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"The Way of the World".John Godfrey Saxe
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A youth would marry a maiden,
For fair and fond was she;
But he was high and she was low,
And so it might not be.John Godfrey Saxe
A youth would marry a maiden,
For fair and fond was she;
But she was rich, and he was poor,
And so it might not be.John Godfrey Saxe
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
Samuel Johnson
What if there be a fated day
When the Faery Isle shall pass away,
And its beautiful groves and fountains seem
The myths of a long, delicious dream!
A century's joys shall first repay
Our hearts, for the evil of that day;
And the Elfin-King has sworn to wed
A daughter of Earth, whose child shall be,
By cross and water hallowe'd,
From the fairies' doom forever free.
What if there be a fated day!
It is far away! it is far away!
Maiden, fair Maiden, I, who sing
Of this summer isle am the island King.Edmund Clarence Stedman
Let first the onion flourish there,
Rose among roots, the maiden-fair,
Wine-scented and poetic soul
Of the capacious salad bowl.Robert Louis Stevenson
Saxe, John Godfrey
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