Of Love and Time say what would Fanny know? <br />That Time is precious, and that Love is sweet? <br />That both, the choicest blessings lent below, <br />With gay Sixteen in envied union meet? <br />Time without Love is tasteless, dull, and cold, <br />Love out of Time will fond and doting prove; <br />To bright sixteen are all their treasures told, <br />Love suits the Time, and Time then favours Love. <br />No longer then of matron brows inquire <br />For sprightly Love, or swiftly-wasting Time; <br />Look but at home, you have what you require,— <br />With gay sixteen they both are in their prime.<br /><br />Anna Laetitia Barbauld<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-miss-f-b-on-her-asking-for-mrs-b-s-love-and-time/
