“Tying her bonnet under her chin,
She tied her raven ringlets in;
But not alone in the silken snare
Did she catch her lovely floating hair,
For, tying her bonnet under her chin,
She tied a young man’s heart within.”

— Nora Perry

The Love-knot, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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