Pride and Prejudice

Elizabeth, I fell in love with you,

Without seeing you in person.

Without being born in your days,       

With a figure that I carved of you,

Out of manners written in words

By Jane Austin in Pride and Prejudice.

I have cut such a figure of you in my thought.          

Like of which no heroine could match

If she were to enact you in a play.

You are the epitome of pride,

The pride without vanity,

The pride without humility either;

The pride with a royal aura

Without any royal blood.

You have had such pride as forbade

You even to reveal your love

To one you were deeply in love with,

And to one who condescended to love

Till he himself laboured to spell.

Elizabeth, I fell in love with you

For your pride, poise and composure.

16.12.2004