Quote#Love
A fair girl tripping out to meet her love
Quote byJohn Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley · 1835–1895
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Power of Interval"; Praeterita (1863), p. 27.
English (original)
A fair girl tripping out to meet her love, Trimmed in her best, fresh as a clover bud. An old crone leaning at an ember’d fire, Short-breath’d in sighs and moaning to herself— And all the interval of stealing years To make that this, and one by one detach Some excellent condition; till Despair Faint at the vision, sadly, fiercely blinds Her burning eyes on her forgetful hands.
— John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley
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