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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MAIDEN'S CHOICE, by HENRY FIELDING Poet's Biography
First Line: Genteel in personage
Last Line: But ever true.
Subject(s): Ideals
First Line: Genteel in personage
Last Line: But ever true.
Subject(s): Ideals
Genteel in personage,
Conduct, and equipage;
Noble by heritage;
Generous and free;
Brave, not romantic;
Learned, not pedantic;
Frolic, not frantic,—
This must be he.
Honor maintaining,
Meanness disdaining,
Still entertaining,
Engaging and new;
Neat, but finical;
Sage, but not cynical;
Never tyrannical,
But ever true.
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