“O my own, my beautiful, my blue-eyed!
To be young once more and bite my thumb
At the world and all its cares with you, I’d
Give no inconsiderable sum.”

— Charles Stuart Calverley

First Love; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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British poet 1831–1884

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“O my own, my beautiful, my blue-eyed!
To be young once more and bite my thumb
At the world and all its cares with you, I’d
Give no inconsiderable sum.”