Quote#Wisdom
That which her slender waist confined
Quote byEdmund Waller · 1606–1687
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham (1857), On a Girdle (1664), st. 1..
English (original)
That which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done.
— Edmund Waller
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