poem

[ajones51]

can anyone help with the full poem it goes something like this, I take a mans arm just for safety you know my Aunt Tabatha tells me she never did so......

[marmaduke]

It's Oliver Wendell Holmes.........

WHATEVER I do, and whatever I say,
Aunt Tabitha tells me that isn't the way;
When she was a girl (forty summers ago)
Aunt Tabitha tells me they never did so.

Dear aunt! If I only would take her advice!
But I like my own way, and I find it so nice
And besides, I forget half the things I am told;
But they all will come back to me--when I am old.

If a youth passes by, it may happen, no doubt,
He may chance to look in as I chance to look out;
She would never endure an impertinent stare,--
It is horrid, she says, and I mustn't sit there. ....etc

 

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