SOU 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, say The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed - Page 193by Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1866Full view - About this book
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...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, say " No " WM PRAED. A LETTER OF ADVICE. ('.. a pending Election at tJte Athenaeum Club.) You tell me that What-you-maccollum... | |
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