Classic Poem

Of the Qualities of Small Women (excerpt)

A small bird is the skylark and so is the nightingale,
yet they sing more sweetly than any larger bird;
the woman who is small is therefore the better;
when treated with affection she is sweeter than sugar or a flower.

There is nothing to be compared with a small woman,
she is an earthly paradise, and a consolation,
a solace and a joy, a pleasure and a blessing,
she is better in the testing than in the first meeting.

I always preferred a small woman to a big one,
for it is not unwise to run away from a great evil;
of evils choose the lesser, saith the Philosopher,
therefore, with women, the smallest is the best.