Advice To a Girl
by George Gordon, Lord Byron
1
- Never love unless you can
- Bear with all the faults of a man!
- Men sometimes will jealous be,
- Though but little cause they see,
- And hang the head as discontent,
- And speak what straight they will repent.
2
- Men that but one saint adore,
- Make a show of love to more;
- Beauty must be scorned in one:
- For what is courtship but disguise?
- True hearts may have dissembling eyes.
3
- Men, when their affairs require,
- Must awhile themselves retire;
- Sometimes hunt, and sometimes hawk,
- And not ever sit and talk
- If these and suchlike you can bear,
- Then like, and love, and never fear!
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