Elizabeth, I fell in love with you, br Without seeing you in person. br Without being born in your days, br With a figure that I carved of you, br Out of manners written in words br By Jane Austin in Pride and Prejudice. br I have cut such a figure of you in my br thought. br Like of which no heroine could match br If she were to enact you in a play. br br You are the epitome of pride, br The pride without vanity, br The pride without humility either; br The pride with a royal aura br Without any royal blood. br You have had such pride as forbade br You even to reveal your love br To one you were deeply in love with, br And to one who condescended to love br Till he himself laboured to spell. br br Elizabeth, I fell in love with you br For your pride, poise and composure. br 16.12.2004br br Rm.Shanmugam Chettiar.