C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Counsels
By Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877)
Translation of Eiríkr Magnússon and Edward Henry Palmer
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Not to sigh, and not be discontented,
And to kiss no young man whatsoever.
Mother, if thy daughter trespass never,
Trespass never ’gainst your last-named counsel,
She will trespass ’gainst the first two, surely.