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Oliver Wendell Holmes - Aunt Tabitha

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THE YOUNG GIRL'S POEM <br /> <br />WHATEVER I do, and whatever I say, <br />Aunt Tabitha tells me that is n't the way; <br />When she was a girl (forty summers ago) <br />Aunt Tabitha tells me they never did so. <br /> <br />Dear aunt! If I only would take her advice! <br />But I like my own way, and I find it so nice <br />And besides, I forget half the things I am told; <br />But they all will come back to me--when I am old. <br /> <br />If a youth passes by, it may happen, no doubt, <br />He may chance to look in as I chance to look out; <br />She would never endure an impertinent stare,-- <br />It is horrid, she says, and I must n't sit there. <br /> <br />A walk in the moonlight has pleasures, I own, <br />But it is n't quite safe to be walking alone; <br />So I take a lad's arm,--just for safety, you know,-- <br />But Aunt Tabitha tells me they did n't do so. <br /> <br />How wicked we are, and how good they were then! <br />They kept at arm's length those detestable men; <br />What an era of virtue she lived in!--But stay-- <br />Were the men all such rogues in Aunt Tabitha's day? <br /> <br />If the men were so wicked, I 'll ask my papa <br />How he dared to propose to my darling mamma; <br />Was he like the rest of them? Goodness! Who knows? <br />And what shall I say, if a wretch should propose? <br /> <br />I am thinking if Aunt knew so little of sin, <br />What a wonder Aunt Tabitha's aunt must have been! <br />And her grand-aunt--it scares me--how shockingly sad <br />That we girls of to-day are so frightfully bad! <br /> <br />A martyr will save us, and nothing else can; <br />Let me perish--to rescue some wretched young man! <br />Though when to the altar a victim I go, <br />Aunt Tabitha 'll tell me she never did so.<br /><br />Oliver Wendell Holmes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/aunt-tabitha/

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