If you had the choice of two women to wed, <br />(Though of course the idea is quite absurd) <br />And the first from her heels to her dainty head <br />Was charming in every sense of the word: <br />And yet in the past (I grieve to state), <br />She never had been exactly "straight". <br /> <br />And the second -- she was beyond all cavil, <br />A model of virtue, I must confess; <br />And yet, alas! she was dull as the devil, <br />And rather a dowd in the way of dress; <br />Though what she was lacking in wit and beauty, <br />She more than made up for in "sense of duty". <br /> <br />Now, suppose you must wed, and make no blunder, <br />And either would love you, and let you win her -- <br />Which of the two would you choose, I wonder, <br />The stolid saint or the sparkling sinner?<br /><br />Robert William Service<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/-2/
